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COOK BOOK PAGE Cookbook Page February 2008 Featured Catalog
This month we are featuring some of the collectible cookbooks from our cookbook catalog and Canadian Cookbook catalogs. Cookbook lovers and collectors will recognize some of the featured listings. We are offering a reprint of Canada's first cookbook The Cook Not Mad (1831). Other firsts in cookbooks are: De Re Coquinaria (The Art of Cooking) first known extant cookbook from the Western World, Le Viandier de Guillaume dit Taillevent the first cookbook of the medieval period, The Forme of Cury (The Art of Cooking) the first cookbook written in English, Eliza Smith The Compleat Housewife the first cookbook to be printed in America (1742), Amelia Simmons American Cookery first on three counts, the first American cookbook, the first American cookbook written by a woman, the first self-published American cookbook, Robert Roberts' The House Servant's Directory the first household book by and African American, Marie J. Moss A Poetical Cook Book first cookbook used to raise funds for charity. |
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