Encyclopedia of Kitchen History

Publishers continue to respond to the seemingly inexhaustible demand for cookery and recipe books to the extent that many of their authors have become celebrities in their own right. Histories of the kitchen and its arts and crafts have been less common. Molly Harrison's Kitchen in History, originally from 1972, (Harrison, 1984) is still read as is Richard Wood's Kitchens through the Ages (Wood, 1997) and works covering specific periods such as Peter Chrisp's Living in History series are popular (Chrisp, 1997a, b). There are also histories of specific aspects of culinary technology...