Recipes from the White Hart Inn: An 18th-Century Cookbook for Today’s Cook
The writing of cookbooks often becomes fraught with injured egos and accusations bordering on the libelous. William Verral’s Recipes from the …
Category Archives: English Cooking
Who were the Cooks? What We Know (More or Less) about Kitchen Servants (1)
While studying The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (Steel and Gardiner, 1888), I found the instructions concerning servants a fascinating …
Ivan Day: Master Food Historian
Those of you with a tremendous love of food history will be happy to know that Ivan Day blogs with …
Heat and Dust and Cooks: The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
“The tale of the British in India holds keys to the universal story of colonization. A no-nonsense book, The Complete Indian …
Captain Warren’s Cooking Pot
A type of pot used during the colonial era, as well as in Victorian England in general, Captain Warren’s Cooking …
Will Verral’s Masterpiece of 1759: A Complete System of Cookery
The English could never catch a break in the kitchen. Why, as early as 1759, in A Complete System of …
The Duke of Newcastle’s Pique, or, A Good Chef is Hard to Find
The diarist Samuel Pepys, no mean observer of human foibles that relieve the monotony of day-to-day human life, recorded — …
French Chefs Abroad: Clouet to Newcastle, Part I
Once upon a time, every duke and lord in the kingdom coveted his neighbor’s French cook (or chef). And no …
Idylls of Cuisine, #92
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Elizabeth David
Foxed, spotted, acid-rich, the paper crackles under the slightest touch of my hands. The book’s an old Penguin paperback, worth …
