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Episode 104: Origins of the Modern Cookbook
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35 minutes
Released:
May 24, 2012
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Description
On this episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio is talking with cooking instructor, author and founder of LaVarenne Cooking School, Anne Willan. Annes cookbook, The Cookbook Library, includes cooking instructions from four centuries of recipe history. Tune in to hear about cooking instructions from all over Europe throughout the ages, the history of dining utensils, and the role of illustrations in cooking manuals. Hear about some of the difficulties involved with recreating dishes from the 15th or 16th century. Anne has collected over 5,000 cookbooks, and you can find some excerpts of these gems of cookbook history in The Cookbook Library! This program has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures. Its wonderful because the whole of Europe was interested in writing down and recording what they were eating. The oldest recipes were the most difficult to recreate because hard to know just what ingredients tasted like and what people were getting, so it was kind of a bit of a guess. What I wanted to do was to present something thats feasible in a modern kitchen. --Anne Willan on A Taste of the Past
Released:
May 24, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1: William Grimes: A History of New York Restaurants: On the pilot episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio takes us on a journey through the history of New York City restaurants, from the big boarding house taverns to the Bijou-style eateries. by A Taste of the Past