Cooking & Drinking

The Pantropheon; Or, History of Food, Its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World

Alexis Soyer

Dr A. Oetkers Grundlehren der Kochkunst sowie preisgekrönte Rezepte für Haus und Küche

August Oetker

Dieses Werk ist ein umfassendes Lehrbuch der Kochkunst, das zugleich praktische Anleitungen für das tägliche…

New Vegetarian Dishes

Mrs. Bowdich

The work is a practical vegetarian cookery manual that opens with a frank appraisal of existing meat‑free…

A History of Champagne, with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France

Henry Vizetelly

The work is a scholarly survey of the history and production of Champagne and other French sparkling wines,…

The Gourmet's Guide to Europe

Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel); Bastard, Algernon

The work is a practical guide for the travelling gourmand, written by Lieutenant‑Colonel Nathaniel…

The Century Cook Book

Mary Ronald

The Century Cook Book, authored by Mary Ronald, presents a comprehensive guide to American cooking at the…

Marion Harland's Complete Cook Book A Practical and Exhaustive Manual of Cookery and Housekeeping

Marion Harland

Marion Harland’s Complete Cook Book presents itself as a sweeping, practical guide for the housewife of the…

Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

McIlvaine, Charles; Macadam, Robert K.

The work is a comprehensive reference on North American fungi, cataloguing roughly one thousand species of…

The Complete Book of Cheese

Bob Brown

The Complete Book of Cheese is a sprawling, nonfiction tour through the world’s dairy heritage, beginning…

The Cookery Blue Book

First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work

The Cookery Blue Book is a practical community cookbook compiled by the First Unitarian Society of San…

Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

Unknown

The book is a practical collection of Pennsylvania Dutch recipes, framed by a brief historical sketch of the…

The curiosities of food: or, The dainties and delicacies of different nations obtained from the animal kingdom

P. L. Simmonds

The work is a Victorian‑era survey of edible animal products from around the world, assembled by Peter Lund…

The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook

Mary Randolph

The Virginia Housewife is a practical manual that blends domestic management with an extensive collection of…

The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soap, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Preparing Artificial Fruit-Essences, Etc.

G. W. Septimus Piesse

The work is a nineteenth‑century manual that treats the sense of smell as a neglected yet vital faculty,…

The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390

Samuel Pegge

The Forme of Cury is a medieval culinary manuscript, compiled in England around 1390 and presented here in a…

The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts)

John Bickerdyke

The work is an encyclopedic survey of English ale and beer, presented as a single‑volume “curiosities” that…

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

Eliza Leslie

Eliza Leslie’s Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches is a practical manual aimed at the American…

The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes

Mrs. W. G. Waters

The Cook’s Decameron is a culinary handbook that frames its extensive collection of Italian recipes within a…

The book of cheese

Thom, Charles; Fisk, W. W.

The book of Cheese is a comprehensive technical guide that opens with a sweeping overview of how cheese has…

Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living

Henry T. Finck

The book opens with a sweeping declaration that food is a universal need, yet the pleasure of eating is…

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home

Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira); Ziemann, Hugo

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) is a sprawling domestic reference that combines practical recipes with a broad…

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened

Kenelm Digby

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

William Carew Hazlitt

A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy

Friedrich Christian Accum