The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook is a gorgeous step back in time, telling us what our ancestors ate--particularly the aristocracy of each century--is this wonderfully written book by Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky with Kyri Clafin. The power cooking duo are also cultivated historians with an immense cookbook collection.
Anne Willan, founder of La Varenne Cooking School, is the author of many cookbooks including the James Beard Award winner, The Country Cooking of France. Mark Cherniavsky has collected antiquarian cookbooks for more than fifty years. Kyri Claflin is coeditor of Writing Food History: A Global Perspective.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://janeammeson.blog/2021/08/31/odd-antique-meals-and-the-strong-stomachs-of-our-ancestors/
