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A History of Cookbooks
From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries
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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.
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
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A History of Cookbooks by Henry Notaker is praised for its meticulous research, positioning cookbooks as valuable literary works. It provides an insightful history of publishing, beautifully intertwining culinary and literary analysis. The book is described as comprehensive and complex, offering valuable insights for both food and literary historians, and is recommended as an essential resource in any good library.
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ISBN: 9780520294004
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 September 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 33 b-w photos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 33.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Henry Notaker is a literary historian who taught courses in food culture and history for over a decade. He was a foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and a TV host of arts and letters shows and documentaries. He is the author of numerous books and articles on European and Latin American contemporary history, food history, and culinary literature.
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