The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made Modern Cooking by Anne Willan, Mark Cherniavsky & Kyri Claflin
4to. pp. xii, 330. b/w illustrations. bibliography. index. hardcover. dw. (near fine - some very light shelf wear). Berkeley: University of California Press, [2012].
from California Studies in Food & Culture, 35
ISBN-13: 9780520244009
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This gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky. From the spiced sauces of medieval times to the massive roasts and ragoûts of Louis XIV’s court to elegant eighteenth-century chilled desserts, The Cookbook Library draws from renowned cookbook author Anne Willan’s and her husband Mark Cherniavsky’s antiquarian cookbook library to guide readers through four centuries of European and early American cuisine. As the authors taste their way through the centuries, describing how each cookbook reflects its time, Willan illuminates culinary crosscurrents among the cuisines of England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. A deeply personal labour of love, The Cookbook Library traces the history of the recipe and includes some of their favourites.
