Cooking and Society in 18th-century Britain
by
Gilly Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2004
This is the first full-scale study of the world of eighteenth-century British cookery books, their authors, their readers and their recipes. For many decades, we have treated them as collectables - often fetching thousands at auction and in rare-book catalogues - or as quaint survivors, while ignoring...