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University of California Press
- A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
summary
A 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.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part One. Food and Text—Cook and Writer
- Prologue: A Rendezvous
- pp. 3-6
- 1. The Cook
- pp. 7-27
- 2. Writer and Author
- pp. 28-46
- Part Two. The Text and Its Form
- 5. Organizing the Cookbook
- pp. 81-97
- 6. Naming the Recipes
- pp. 98-111
- 7. Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches
- pp. 112-129
- 8. Paratexts in Cookbooks
- pp. 130-143
- 9. The Recipe Form
- pp. 144-163
- 10. The Cookbook Genre
- pp. 164-184
- Part Three. The Text and Its World
- 11. Cookbooks for the Rich and the Poor
- pp. 187-200
- 12. Health and Medicine in Cookbooks
- pp. 201-212
- 13. Recipes for Fat Days and Lean Days
- pp. 213-222
- 14. Vegetarian Cookbooks
- pp. 223-232
- 15. Jewish Cookbooks
- pp. 233-244
- 16. Cookbooks and Aspects of Nationalism
- pp. 245-263
- 17. Decoration, Illusion, and Entertainment
- pp. 264-276
- 18. Taste and Pleasure
- pp. 277-287
- 19. Gender in Cookbooks and Household Books
- pp. 288-298
- Epilogue: Cookbooks and the Future
- pp. 299-302
- References
- pp. 353-374
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520967281
Related ISBN(s)
9780520294004
MARC Record
OCLC
976036259
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2017-10-20
Language
English
Open Access
No