Lives of Notorious Cooks | Chômu Press

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“You see,” Peng Zu said, “the gravest problems of state can be resolved over a bowl of soup. The people, seeing you live frugally will not resent you. When the ruler is calm, the nation is calm.”

Learn of the outrageous and sometimes dubious lives of Peng Zu and fifty other notorious cooks from the pages of history and legend, in a picaresque dictionary of delicious and playful story-telling.

* Coming Dec 2012 * Lives of Notorious Cooks by Brendan Connell 

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Cooks and Queens (ebook)

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Foodies, history buffs, and all-around Anglophiles will enjoy this delectable eBook about the evolution of English cuisine. The author has done her research – with the use of historical references and her own taste buds. Each section focuses on a pivotal era in English history, detailing what sort of food was consumed based on resources that were available at the time.

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Vintage cookbooks reveal secrets of America’s past – Boston Globe

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In 1796, a self-described orphan named Amelia Simmons published a slim cookbook “calculated for the improvement of the rising generation of Females in America.” Now considered the first American cookbook, “American Cookery” took British cooking methods and applied them to the ingredients of the New World, including cornmeal and squash.

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