Call it culinary literature
December 16, 2023 3:08 AM Subscribe
Treasured old cookbooks and recipes, and why they matter. (Australian ABC)
A lovely exploration of different ways that people carry the old recipes forward.
A lovely exploration of different ways that people carry the old recipes forward.
I very much enjoy community cookbooks and historical "cookery books."
Mostly as cultural artifacts, though especially if the recipes are actually good or particularly unusual.
Some wind up being rather authoritative, like The Complete Book of Greek Cooking from "the Recipe Club of St. Paul's Cathedral."
posted by snuffleupagus at 11:13 AM on December 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
Mostly as cultural artifacts, though especially if the recipes are actually good or particularly unusual.
Some wind up being rather authoritative, like The Complete Book of Greek Cooking from "the Recipe Club of St. Paul's Cathedral."
posted by snuffleupagus at 11:13 AM on December 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
These items tell stories large and small, and they really are worth preserving.
My employer is a university with a good culinary program, and we have a big archive & museum just stuffed with things: menus and ovens and cookbooks and a diner car and a soda fountain and just a zillion other things.
https://www.jwu.edu/culinarymuseum/
If you are ever in Providence, RI, let me know and you can check it out!
posted by wenestvedt at 4:06 AM on December 18, 2023 [1 favorite]
My employer is a university with a good culinary program, and we have a big archive & museum just stuffed with things: menus and ovens and cookbooks and a diner car and a soda fountain and just a zillion other things.
https://www.jwu.edu/culinarymuseum/
If you are ever in Providence, RI, let me know and you can check it out!
posted by wenestvedt at 4:06 AM on December 18, 2023 [1 favorite]
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My foodie Nibling got married last Summer. They asked their friends-and-relations to skip giving them toast-racks but just send a favorite recipe - which they intend to gather into a recipe book. I sent one from me; and one from my mother, her grand-mother, from beyond the grave. My GoTo party trick is to make a slab of flapjacks (oats, flour, sugar, butter + golden syrup) which I inherited from that same mother: although I halved the sugar: we're not in the 1930s anymore.
posted by BobTheScientist at 6:18 AM on December 16, 2023 [1 favorite]