Cooking Up History

Chefs of the Past

by Emma Kay

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Extent: 204 pages

Publisher: Prospect Books

Subjects: Food & Drink

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2017)

ISBN: 9781909248533

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $30.00

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A biographical, historical account of history’s most notorious and celebrated chefs, including Charles Francatelli, Eustache Ude, Eliza Acton, Agnes Marshall. Charles Francatelli and Alexis Soyer. It also covers important American cooks such as Hercules, George Washington’s black enslaved American chef, George Speck, credited with the invention of the potato chip, Fannie Merritt Farmer of the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook fame, Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico’s, New York, and Amelia Simmons whose American Cookery is the first cookbook on American culture in the kitchen, including the first ‘koekje’ or ‘cookie’ recipe.

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Introduction
Early Modernist and New World Culinarians
Women Cooks of the Enlightenment and Empire
Eminent Gastronomes
The Overlooked and Uncredited

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  • By (author) Emma Kay

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