Idylls of Cuisine, #39

22 Nov

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Why GHERKINS & TOMATOES?

Ultimately, life's all about cooks and cooking, feeding the daily hunger and keeping the wolf away from the door. "Gherkins & Tomatoes" zeros in on multicultural foodways and culinary history via the best of all primary sources - COOKBOOKS. And therefore salutes the cooks - mostly women - who invented the "recipes" that have fed humans since the first skewer emerged from the fire. Grab a glass of your favorite potion and join me in discovering the almost mystical succulence of the most popular books after the Bible - COOKBOOKS.

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Cooked Books: All Things Culinary at the New York Public Library

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Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online

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Old Cookbooks.com Lost & Found

Online Culinary History Network

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The Forme of Cury (Earliest English Cookbook)

The Great American Potluck (Library of Congress)

The Whitehouse Cook Book (1887) by Mrs. F. L. Gillette

Thomas Gloning’s Corpus of Culinary & Dietetic Texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800

Unique collection of antique cookbooks (Located in Sweden)

University of Barcelona Digitized Rare and Antique Cookbooks

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. ~~ Victor Hugo

TRANSLATE THIS BLOG

All About Food History: Archives

Favorite Post

Here Comes the Sun: Beautiful Golden Sunflowers All

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LINK UP WITH CULINARY HISTORY!

Africa

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