Seven Centuries of English Cooking
Seven Centuries of English Cooking

Author: Maxime de La Falaise

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780802132963

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The hundreds of recipes in Maxime de la Falaise's delight-ful book triumphantly attest to the virtues of Anglo-Saxon gastronomy. Rich with the historical sense of taste, this book allows you to cook the rudiments of a medieval royal banquet, an Elizabethan nursery breakfast, or an eighteenth-century tavern lunch. The recipes are divided into five chronological sections, each preceded by an introduction recounting the fashions and the changes in the food and drink of the period; together they provide an overview of the evolution of English cookery. The earliest recipes, dating from the thirteenth century, are presented in their original language ("Take faire Mutton that hath ben roste . . .") as well as in a modern translation, and all measures and quantities have been updated throughout. Many of the dishes are quite simple to make; others are, quite literally, fit for a king. All together they constitute a delectable, sensual cele-bration of the development of English cuisine.

British Food
British Food

Author: Colin Spencer

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780231131100

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Traces the history of British cuisine, exploring the factors that have influenced and changed eating in Britain, describing the rich variety of foods that define British cuisine, and recounting various culinary traditions.

Instructional Writing in English
Instructional Writing in English

Author: Matti Peikola

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9027254249

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The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from AElfric s homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume."

Cooking the English Way
Cooking the English Way

Author: Barbara W. Hill

Publisher: Lerner Publications

Published: 2002-08-01

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0822580128

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English cuisine is often regared as unexciting, but with flavorful dishes such as tender roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, buttery scones, tasty fish and chips, and sweet triflees, it's anything but bland. Relying on fresh, simple ingredients to highlight the natural flavors of foods, English dishes are hearty and delicious.

Cuisine and Empire
Cuisine and Empire

Author: Rachel Laudan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-04-03

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0520286316

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Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culinary philosophy”—beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods—prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan’s innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.