The Eighteenth Century

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The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook
The Cookbook Library

By Anne Willan

Published 2012

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1 Romney Sedgwick, “The Duke of Newcastle’s Cook,” History Today 5, no. 5 (May 1955): 312.
2 See Linda Colley’s insightful study Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).
3 Lorna Weatherill, Consumer Behavior and Material Culture in Britain 1660– 1760 (London: Routledge, 1988), 138–39.
4 Charles Carter, “To the Reader,” The Complete Practical Cook: or, a New System of the Whole Art and Mystery of Cookery (London: W. Meadows, 1730).
5 Charles Carter, The Compleat City and Country Cook: or, Accomplish’d Housewife (London: For A. Bettes-worth and C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1736), v.