IT was with something of a shock that I woke one morning and found myself a collector of cookery books. I am not sure which seemed the more extraordinary, — that there should be cookery books to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What do "The Count of Monte Cristo" author Alexandre Dumas, surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and horror actor Vincent Price have in common?

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Humans began cooking their food somewhere between 2 million and 50,000 years ago. While the earliest single recipes to be written were for ...

A proper “Independence Cake,” according to Amelia Simmons’ American Cookery, should be big enough to feed quite a few Americans. The cake recipe, originally published in 1796, requires 20 pounds of ...

British novelist Joseph Conrad concluded, “The purpose of a cookery book is one and unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind.” Though we don’t ...

If you live in the South, you love history and you’ve been to a church supper or a family reunion, you need the revised edition of “The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery.” Do you remember the ...

The Italian cookery books were the most important published anywhere, in the sixteenth century. Italy then set the standard of cookery, as of all the arts, for the world. Even the French looked up to ...