Seven Centuries of English Cooking
Subtitle: A Collection of Recipes
Edition: 1st Grove Press Evergreen Ed edition
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: January 21, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780802132963
Subjects: General cookery; National & regional cuisine; Regional & Ethnic - English, Scottish & Welsh; Cooking / Wine; Cooking; England; Cooking / British; Reference; Cookery, English; History
First sentence: THE VERY FIRST English cookery book seems to be one written in the twelfth century by Alexander-Neckham, but the oldest really usable document of this kind is The Forme of Cury, compiled by the chief master-cooks of Richard II late in the fourteenth century.