Cooking & Food
Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages
A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on …
The Experienced English Housekeeper
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …
Culture and Cooking
This is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one; it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your househ…
Brewing
Brewing by Alfred Chaston Chapman delves into the intricate world of beer production, revealing its profound connections to scientific advan…
Culinary Herbs
Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…
The Story of a Loaf of Bread
According to the author in the preface, he has "ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, mil…
Cottage Economy
How can you tell when your pig is fat enough? Why should you never buy mustard? What's wrong with eating potatoes? Which is better, beer or …
Cheating the Junk-Pile
This book of advice about the purchase and care of household appliances is intended to cheat the junk-pile by inspiring the buyer to get the…
Culinary Herbs
This book describes use and care, and growing of herbs for cooking, healing and other interesting miscellaneous information related to herbs…
A Guide to Modern Cookery
Le Guide Culinaire can be regarded as the ‘Bible’ of modern cooking. It was Escoffier's attempt to codify and streamline the French restaura…
Good Things to Eat
Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …
The American Housewife
This cookbook and reference guide leads the American Housewife through how to make everything from Meat to Common Drinks, as well as helpful…
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PURE SURPLUS HONEY WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE, REMEDIES FO…
Spices, their histories
A surprisingly complete and informative 64-page booklet describing common spices used in cooking and for other purposes. Written especially …
All About Coffee
Considered the definitive work about coffee of its time, "All About Coffee" was written by William Ukers, founder of the Tea and C…
The Complete Book of Cheese
Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…
Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book
The author, H.J. Clayton, subtitles this book, “being a practical treatise on the culinary art adapted to the tastes and wants of all classe…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…
The Book of Household Management
"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…
Ketchup
The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…