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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818584003321

Autore

Sherman Sandra

Titolo

Invention of the modern cookbook / / Sandra Sherman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Greenwood, , 2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023

ISBN

979-84-00-67225-5

1-59884-487-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxv, 261 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks.

Disciplina

641.5973

Soggetti

Cookery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Timeline""; ""1. Culinary Authority""; ""2. Intelligible Recipes and Competent Instruction""; ""3. Complementary Material""; ""4. Celebrity Chefs""; ""5. Marketing Strategies""; ""6. Niche and Specialty Cookbooks""; ""7. Point of View""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

Discusses the roots of cookbook collections in 17th-century England and illuminates the cookbook's role as it has evolved over time. Provides the first analysis of what a modern cookbook actually is and shows how its characteristics originated.