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<em>The Art of Cookery Made Plain And Easy</em>, a 1777 cookbook included in the database, "which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published," was popular in Britain and the American colonies. Its author, Hannah Glasse, was one of the first famous female cookbook authors.
food

A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It

It took Barbara Ketcham Wheaton more than 50 years to compile The Sifter.
Reina Gattuso August 13, 2020
UTSA adapted an image from a 1960 cookbook for their pandemic-era cover.
libraries

A University Is Turning Historical Mexican Recipes Into Free E-Books

The project is meant to inspire home cooks during the pandemic.
Luke Fater July 29, 2020
Muralidharan worked with illustrators Shrishti Dabolkar and Priyadarshini Narayana to create renderings of the vegetables featured in <em>Cook and See</em>.
food

Cracking the Case of South India's Missing Vegetables

A food designer used quarantine to track down the mystery produce in his grandmother's cookbook.
Reina Gattuso July 22, 2020
One of Anna Kharzeeva's adaptations of the "Soviet pizza" recipe.
food

Eat Like You're in the USSR With 'The Soviet Diet Cookbook'

By making pizza approved by the Communist Party.
Dalia Wolfson July 20, 2020
Lucille Bishop Smith, shown here in her kitchen, was especially renowned for her hot rolls.
food

Sold: A Black Texan Trailblazer's 'Treasure Chest' of Recipes

Lucille Bishop Smith's famous recipe boxes are still sought after.
Rebecca Rego Barry June 19, 2020
Arturo Schomburg was a scholar and a bibliophile, but he was also a gastronome.
food

How America Rediscovered a Cookbook From the Harlem Renaissance

Arturo Schomburg's work is still inspiring researchers and cooks today.
Mayukh Sen May 1, 2020
Elite chefs in Thailand collect funeral books for their recipes.
food

In Thailand, Funeral Cookbooks Preserve Recipes and Memories

Though their origins are tragic, the books provide invaluable inspiration.
Chawadee Nualkhair April 24, 2020
Chefs Elizabeth Johnson of Pharm Table in San Antonio and Juan Cabrera Barrón of Fonda Fina in Mexico City page through the collection's oldest book.
libraries

Generations of Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Online

North America's largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes.
Nils Bernstein February 10, 2020
Activists at the People's Fund in the 1970s.
food

Eat Like a 1970s Radical With 'The People's Philadelphia Cookbook'

The 1976 book included contributions from the Black Power and Gay Liberation movements.
Reina Gattuso January 24, 2020
The recipe for Peking duck from Bianyifang in Beijing is still a secret.
restaurants

A New Cookbook Traces the Surprising Histories of Famous Dishes

Some signature dishes changed the culinary world.
Anne Ewbank October 3, 2019
Video

The Western World's Oldest Cookbook

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The cookbook from Iron Shepherds is a rare glimpse into a commoner's kitchen of medieval England.
medieval

Eat Like an English Peasant With This Medieval Cookbook

It makes peasant food pleasant.
Luke Fater September 12, 2019
If only we still called them sallets.
plants

For Sale: A 1699 Treatise on the Best Ways to Make Salad

Though John Evelyn wasn't a vegetarian, he did appear to be ahead of his time.
Matthew Taub August 12, 2019
Shah Jahan on the Peacock Throne at Delhi receiving deputations.
food

Eat Like Royalty With This Cookbook From the Emperor Who Built the Taj Mahal

Shah Jahan developed one of the most famous cuisines of India.
Reina Gattuso August 5, 2019
A falafel stand in Gaza.
food

Around the Middle East in Hummus and Falafel

A new book is an ode to chickpeas and the people that love them.
Olivia Snaije July 26, 2019
Writing recipes became a ritual during times of debilitating hunger.
nazis

The Extraordinary ‘Cookbooks’ Left Behind by Prisoners of War and Concentration Camp Victims

Their culinary legacies, written on scraps of paper or fabric, tell stories of hope and resistance.
Rohini Chaki June 5, 2019
Many of <em>Eat the Problem</em>'s recipes are monochromatic, such as this dark take on river trout.
animals

The Glamorous Australian Guide to Eating Invasive Species

An edgy new cookbook has recipes for camel, cane toad, and feral cat.
Anne Ewbank May 22, 2019
Alexandre Dumas the Elder, known as <em>Dumas Père</em>, preparing his oyster omelette.
food

Alexandre Dumas’s Magnum Opus Was a Massive Cookbook

The French literary icon thought this 1,150-page compendium on cookery would be his masterpiece.
Rohini Chaki March 12, 2019