Books for the Practical Historian

Food and Cookery

Growing fruits and animals and the cooking thereof, and wines, beers, and distillation.



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Altamiras, Nuevo Arte de Cocino

Altamiras, Nuevo Arte de Cocino

Spiral-bound photocopy of Altamiras, Juan, Nuevo arte de cocina sacado de las escuela de la experiencia economica , Barcelona; Thomas Piferrer,...
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Black, Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History.

Black, Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History.

English Heritage. 2003. ISBN: 9781850748670. Hardback. Contains over 30 recipes from medieval times - all of which can be reproduced in the modern...
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Brears, Tudor Cookery: Recipes and History

Brears, Tudor Cookery: Recipes and History

English Heritage. 2003. Hardback. ISBN 9781850748687. Contains over 50 recipes from the 16th century- all of which can be reproduced in the modern...
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Dalby, Flavors of Byzantium

Dalby, Flavors of Byzantium

Hardbound. Here are laid out the food habits of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, which for centuries has tempted and fascinated the West,...
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Davidson and Stevenson, The Closet of the Eminently Learned...

Davidson and Stevenson, The Closet of the Eminently Learned...

...Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt., Opened (1669). Prospect Books. No date. ISBN 97810903018705. Trade paperback. A paperback edition of a classic of 17th...
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Dawson, Plenti and Grase: Food and Drink in a Sixteenth...

Dawson, Plenti and Grase: Food and Drink in a Sixteenth...

....Century Household. Prospect Books. 2009. ISBN 97810903018569. Hardbound. This is an important study of the household affairs of the Willoughby...
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Driver, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

Driver, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

Trade paperback. "First published in 1699, John Evelyn's Acetaria is an early book about food, rather than just a collection of recipes or a medical...
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Fletcher, Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of...

Fletcher, Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of...

...Feasting. Orion Publishing Group. 2005. Hardbound. ISBN 9780312340681. In this unusual food-oriented history, Nichola Fletcher concentrates not on...
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Grainger, Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today.

Grainger, Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today.

Prospect Books. No date. ISBN 9781903018446. Trade paperback. To accompany the new scholarly edition of Apicus Sally Grainger has gathered, in one...
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Grocock and Grainger, Apicius: A Critical Edition.

Grocock and Grainger, Apicius: A Critical Edition.

Propsect Books. 2006. ISBN 9781903018132. Hardbound. Apicius is the sole remaining cookery book from the days of the Roman Empire. Though there were...
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Hammond, Food and Feast in Medieval England.

Hammond, Food and Feast in Medieval England.

Sutton. 1999. ISBN 9780750937733. Trade paperback. Based on archaeological and written evidence, this book deals with everything we know about...
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Henisch, The Medieval Cook.

Henisch, The Medieval Cook.

Boydell & Brewer. 2009. Hardback. ISBN 9781843834380 "This book takes us into the world of the medieval cook, from the chefs in the great medieval...
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Mair and Hoh, The True History of Tea

Mair and Hoh, The True History of Tea

Thames and Hudson. 2009. Hardbound. ISBN 9780500251461. Tea has inspired artists, enhanced religious experience, played a pivotal role in the...
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McLeod and McLeod, Celtic Foods and Cooking (audio CD)

McLeod and McLeod, Celtic Foods and Cooking (audio CD)

52 minutes. The very word "Celtic" evokes an aura of mystery and of magic. But in reality the Celts collectively were a people who loved to farm, who...
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Perry and Rodinson, eds., Medieval Arab Cookery

Perry and Rodinson, eds., Medieval Arab Cookery

Hardcover. Papers by Maxime Rodinson and Charles Perry; with a reprint of 'A BAGHDAD COOKERY BOOK' by the late Professor A.J. Arberry; and a foreword...
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Pollington, Leechraft: Early English Charms, Plant Lore, and ...

Pollington, Leechraft: Early English Charms, Plant Lore, and ...

...Healing. Anglo-Saxon Books. 2008. Trade paperback. ISBN 9781898281474. A comprehensive and detailed examination of every aspect of the early...
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Prescott (translator), Le Viandier de Taillevent

Prescott (translator), Le Viandier de Taillevent

1989. A paperback translation of Le Viandier, a 15th-century French cookbook, published by the Alfarhaugr Publishing Society, an organization of...
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Renfrew, Food & Cooking in Roman Britain.

Renfrew, Food & Cooking in Roman Britain.

English Heritage. 1985. ISBN 9781850745341. A short study describing the change in tastes that the Roman brought, Roman banquets, the evidence for...
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Riley, trans. and ed., The Fruit, Herbs & Vegetables of Italy...

Riley, trans. and ed., The Fruit, Herbs & Vegetables of Italy...

....(1614), by Giacomo Castelvetro. Prospect Books. 2009. ISBN 97810903018644. This is a new edition of a classic of early 17th century food writing....
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Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook

Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook

Trade paperback. This is a facsimile edition of the masterpiece of Restoration cookery by Robert May, first published in 1660 - but this is a...
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Santanach, The Book of Sent Soví: Medieval recipes...

Santanach, The Book of Sent Soví: Medieval recipes...

...from Catalonia. Translated bu Robin Vogelzang. 2008. Paperbound. ISBN 9781855661646. "The Book of Sent Soví, composed around the middle of the...
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Scully, Le Vivendier

Scully, Le Vivendier

Edited and translated, with a critical commentary, by Terence Scully. The Vivendier is a hitherto unpublished manuscript of more than sixty recipes...
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Scully, trans., The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L’arte...

Scully, trans., The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L’arte...

...et prudenza d’un maestro Cuoco. University of Toronto Press. 2008. Hardbound. ISBN 9780802096241. Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500–1577) was arguably...
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The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie....

The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie....

...Knight, Opened (1669). Hardcover. Written in the late 17th century, The Closet contains multitudinous recipes for both food and drink. Edited by...
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Thick, Sir Hugh Plat: The Search for Useful Knowledge in...

Thick, Sir Hugh Plat: The Search for Useful Knowledge in...

...Early Modern London. Prospect Books. Not yet in print. ISBN 97810903018651. Hardbound. The scientific and protoscientific community of Elizabethan...
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van Winter, Spices and Confits: Collected Papers on...

van Winter, Spices and Confits: Collected Papers on...

....Medieval Food. Prospect Books. No date. ISBN 9781903018453. Hardbound. Throughout a long teaching career in academic life in Holland, Johanna...
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White, The English Kitchen: Historical Essays.

White, The English Kitchen: Historical Essays.

(Food and Society, vol. 13, from the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Leeds Symposium on Food History in 2003, entitled The Changing Face of Food )....

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Wilson, Water of Life: A History of Wine Distilling and...

Wilson, Water of Life: A History of Wine Distilling and...

...Spirits from 500 BC to AD 2000. Prospect Books. No date. ISBN 9781903018460. Hardbound. This important book looks at the entire history of...
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Davidson and Stevenson, The Closet of the Eminently Learned... 12/15/2010
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Thick, Sir Hugh Plat: The Search for Useful Knowledge in... 09/15/2010