SC - cookbook list

Cindy Renfrow renfrow at skylands.net
Sun Feb 14 10:21:18 PST 1999


Hello!  What I'm looking for is a list, broken down by country/language of
origin, & sorted by date of publication rather than by author/title.

Cindy

>Cindy asked:
>>Hello!  Does anyone have a list of old cookbooks by publication date &
>>location?
>
>Cindy, I'm sure you've already got a pretty good bibliography of stuff,
>what are you looking for? Did you mean location meaning where the book was
>written or published or location as in where the physical copy is located?
>If you mean the origin of the book itself, one often overlooked resource is
>Thomas Gloning's bibliography that's listed on the Medieval/Renaissance
>Food Page. I can't remember what it's listed as there, it's a huge list of
>books ranging from 1350-1800. The focus is on German stuff, but he's got a
>lot of others in other languages as well.
>
>Does anyone know of a good coomprehensive bibliography of cookbooks in U.S.
>libraries that's current? Back in the 1978 Babara Feret published one that
>lists books on cookery in Special Collections, but it wasn't very complete
>and it's definitely outdated. The only way I know to find out what library
>owns a particular book is to search an online data base such as MARC, that
>lists the holdings for specific titles. An academic librarian can be your
>best friend.
>
>Valoise
>
>


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