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The Art of Cookery: Cook to the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral (Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping)
John Thacker
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Description for The Art of Cookery: Cook to the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral (Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping)
Hardcover. A cookery book of the English 18th-century that has the author's own recipes throughout. Series: Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping. Num Pages: 358 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, original drawings. BIC Classification: WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 38. Weight in Grams: 671.
"The Art of Cookery" is the only books 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 for all levels of society, from canons of the Cathedral with sophisticated tastes such as the gourmand Dr. Jacque Sterne, to tradesmen, ... Read more
"The Art of Cookery" is the only books 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 for all levels of society, from canons of the Cathedral with sophisticated tastes such as the gourmand Dr. Jacque Sterne, to tradesmen, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Series
Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Lewes, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781870962209
SKU
V9781870962209
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Ref
99-32
About John Thacker
Ivan Day is a food historian with a special interest in re-creating the food of the past in period settings. His work has been exhibited in many major museums, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Paul Getty Museum, Waddesdon Manor, Fairfax House and the Museum of London. He was curator of Royal Sugar Sculpture (2002) at the Bowes Museum ... Read more
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