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100 1  Notaker, Henry,|eauthor. 
245 12 A history of cookbooks :|bfrom kitchen to page over seven 
       centuries /|cHenry Notaker. 
264  1 Oakland, California :|bUniversity of California Press,
       |c[2017] 
300    384p.c23cm.  
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  California studies in food and culture ;|v64 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Prologue: a rendez-vous -- The cook -- Writer and author -
       - Origin and early development of modern cookbooks -- 
       Printed cookbooks: diffusion, translation, and plagiarism 
       -- Organizing the cookbook -- Naming the recipes -- 
       Pedagogical and didactic aspects -- Paratexts in cookbooks
       -- The recipe form -- The cookbook genre -- Cookbooks for 
       rich and poor -- Health and medicine in cookbooks -- 
       Recipes for fat and lean days -- Vegetarian cookbooks -- 
       Jewish cookbooks -- Cookbooks and aspects of nationalism -
       - Decoration, illusion, and entertainment -- Taste and 
       pleasure -- Gender in cookbooks and household books -- 
       Epilogue: cookbooks and the future. 
520    "A History of Cookbooks provides a literary and historical
       overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development 
       as an important part of food culture beginning in the Late
       Middle Ages. Studying cookbooks from various Western 
       cultures and languages, Henry Notaker traces the 
       transformation of recipes from brief notes with 
       ingredients into detailed recipes with a specific 
       structure, grammar, and vocabulary. In addition, he 
       reveals that cookbooks go far beyond offering recipes: 
       they tell us a great deal about nutrition, morals, manners,
       history, and menus while often providing entertaining 
       reflections and commentaries. This innovative book 
       demonstrates that cookbooks represent an interesting and 
       important branch of nonfiction literature."--Provided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Cookbooks|zEurope|xHistory. 
650  0 Manners and customs in literature. 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aNotaker, Henry, author.|tHistory of 
       cookbooks|dOakland, California : University of California 
       Press, [2017]|z9780520967281|w(DLC) 2017012224 
830  0 California studies in food and culture ;|v64.