A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page Over Seven CenturiesA History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development as a part of food culture beginning in the Late Middle Ages. Studying cookbooks from various Western cultures and languages, Henry Notaker traces the transformation of recipes from brief notes with ingredients into detailed recipes with a specific structure, grammar, and vocabulary. In addition, he reveals that cookbooks go far beyond offering recipes: they tell us a great deal about nutrition, morals, manners, history, and menus while often providing entertaining reflections and commentaries. This innovative book demonstrates that cookbooks represent an interesting and important branch of nonfiction literature. |
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Contents
A Rendezvous | 3 |
The Cook | 7 |
Writer and Author | 28 |
part two the text and its form | 47 |
The Origin and Early Development of Modern Cookbooks | 49 |
Diffusion Translation and Plagiarism | 65 |
Organizing the Cookbook | 81 |
Naming the Recipes | 98 |
Health and Medicine in Cookbooks | 201 |
Recipes for Fat Days and Lean Days | 213 |
Vegetarian Cookbooks | 223 |
Jewish Cookbooks | 233 |
Cookbooks and Aspects of Nationalism | 245 |
Decoration Illusion and Entertainment | 264 |
Taste and Pleasure | 277 |
Gender in Cookbooks and Household Books | 288 |
Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches | 112 |
Paratexts in Cookbooks | 130 |
The Recipe Form | 144 |
The Cookbook Genre | 164 |
part three the text and its world | 185 |
Notes | 303 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page Over Seven Centuries Volume 64 of California Studies in Food and Culture |
| Author | Henry Notaker |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0520294009, 9780520294004 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › Cooking / General Cooking / History History / World |
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