Recommended Cookbooks |
last update: 5 Dec 2007 |
| Title | Author | Published by | Year | card cat. # | format/size | comments (inc. era/culture) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens | Mark Grant | This is an EXCELLENT book covering the food of the
regular folks! Inexpensive book, independent publisher--available
from Amazon.com. I'm not sure about Powell's. What more can I say? I
LOVE this book! More over and let me at the counter! I'll make ya
some of Cato's cheese bread! Yum!! This book uses sources other than
the gourmet Apicius. | ||||
| Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome | Patrick Faas | |||||
| A Royal Cookbook | Gary F. Smith | self | 1982 | (none) | comb-bound 32 pages 7"w x 8½"t |
A compilation of recipes from various SCA cooks. Some recipes are documented, some aren't. 1300s-1600 European style. |
| The Williamsburg Art of Cookery | Mrs. Helen Bullock | Colonial Williamsburg | 1938 | (none) | hard-cover 276 pages 4½"w x 7"t |
"Being a collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most Ancient & Approv'd Recipes in Virginia Cookery." Documented, indexed, w/bibliography. 1700s-mid 1800s Virginia and environs. |
| Beeton's Book of Household Management | Mrs. Isabella Beeton | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 1977(orig. 1861) | ISBN 00-374-21513-8 | hard-cover 1112 pages 5"w x 7"t |
First edition facsimile. From domestics' wages to physicking to actual, edible food recipes, this slice of Victorian life is a must-have for the re-enactor as well as the foodie. Self-documented, indexed. Mid-1800s US. |