The Art of Cookery

by John Thacker

The Art of Cookery is the only book of its kind to have come out of an English religious community. It is also that very rare thing, a cookery book of the English 18th-century that has the author's own recipes throughout; nothing seems to have been plagiarized or borrowed from other writers. The Dean of Durham Cathedral, who employed the author, had a lavish grant for entertaining and his generous hospitality meant that his cook had to cater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1870962206
• ISBN13: 9781870962209
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"