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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

Hardcover

Cookbooks GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1644396122
ISBN13: 9781644396124
Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.Com
Published: Feb 22 2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This is a tough one to review fairly. A lot of the book is incredibly dull, full of stodgy Victorian pseudo-academic ranting, and talks about the history of cookery books, not about cooking. I nearly gave up on this after half an hour because I was so bored.


However, the actual recipes scattered through the book are pure gold. They show you a style of cooking that is long gone, where our modern conventions of what ingredients constitute starters, main courses and desserts aren't yet fully formed. They're not like modern easy-to-follow recipes either - you require some ingenuity and understanding to figure out what to do.

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