Here are 5 miscellaneous cookbooks--I'm not writing descriptions--you may want to consider adding to your shelf. Strictly speaking, Vinegar is not a cookbook but does include pickling advice and recipes. Cobb, L.B., comp. and ed. - Old Fashioned Recipes for Modern Cooks McQueary, Carl - Dining at the Governor's Mansion Pock, Angela - Healthy Home Cookin' Allergy Cook-booklet, 2d ed. Townsend, Julie - Vinegar~A Guide to the Many Types and Their Uses Around the Home Wright, Anne - Good Housekeeping One-Dish Meals~100 Delicious Recipes
Readers will discover that cookbooks were the product of careful invention by highly skilled chefs and profit-minded publishers who designed them for maximum audience appeal, responding to a changing readership and cultural conditions and utilizing innovative marketing and promotion techniques still practiced today. They will see how cookbooks helped women adjust to the changes of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution by educating them on a range of subjects from etiquette to dealing with household servants. And they will learn how the books themselves became "modern"...
Encyclopedia of Pasta (California Studies in Food and Culture)
Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinatipasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of shapes it takes and the even greater abundance of names by which it is known.
While the literary world is filled with international cookbooks, as well as cookbooks for children, none combine both features as does Multicultural Cookbook of Life-Cycle Celebrations. A companion volume to popular earlier cookbooks by Oryx, this new title covers the celebrations and the recipes that take a person from cradle to grave. Arranged by region and country, the latest multicultural cookbook is an ideal resource for all classes that use culinary customs to bolster curriculums, presenting more than 250 authentic recipes, it includes interesting introductions about each celebration.
