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 …
Category Archives: English Cooking
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 …
