Invention of the Modern Cookbook

by Sandra Sherman

This eye-opening history will change the way you read a cookbook or regard a TV chef, making cooking ventures vastly more interesting--and a lot more fun.

Every kitchen has at least one well-worn cookbook, but just how did they come to be? Invention of the Modern Cookbook is the first study to examine that question, discussing the roots of these collections in 17th-century England and illuminating the cookbook's role as it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598844865
• ISBN13: 9781598844863
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"