A handbook of invalid cooking: For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

Anonymous

The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information presents itself as a single‑volume handbook aimed specifically at…

Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food."

Florence Nightingale

All about coffee

William H. Ukers

William H. Ukers’s All About Coffee is a comprehensive historical survey that traces the beverage from its…

Enquire within upon everything The great Victorian-era domestic standby

Robert Kemp Philp

Enquire Within Upon Everything is a Victorian‑era handbook of wordplay, presenting a sprawling collection of…

A guide to modern cookery

A. Escoffier

The book is a comprehensive manual of modern French cookery written by Auguste Escoffier, a chef who managed…

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Apicius

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome presents a scholarly edition of the surviving culinary material…