Cookery books and books on food.

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Post by kmerline »

I really enjoyed the Wikipedia article! You can post works from internet archive without using the (poor) OCR image. There are several such works up on our forums now.
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The wikipedia article mentiones in passing that the Powder of Sympathy was suggested in 1687 as a means of solving the longitude problem. Basically the idea was to cut a dog with a knife, then put him aboard a ship. At noon (London time) every day the Powder would be applied to the knife, and the dog would yelp in sympathy--however far away. Thus letting the ship's captain know the time difference between where he was and London, and thus be able to calculate the longitude.

Weird, huh? :)

While not nearly the centerpoint of the book, this "method," among others more and less scientific, is described in Dava Sobel's wonderful book Longitude.


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Post by lectorinfabula »

Fellow Librivoxees
I for one love to listen to audiobooks (mostly Librivox, of course) while either cooking, eating or doing the dishes (and having a smoke aftwerwards)

So, how about a cook book for a change ?

British Librivoxers may be familiar with this one, apparenty this is a classic in the field, not just for the cooking but also for historical, cultural and literary reasons.

The Art Of Cookery Made Plain And Easy, by Hannah Glasse from 1784 [adopted]
http://www.archive.org/details/artcookerymadep00glasgoog

Who needs Jamie Oliver and all those other TV chefs when you got this classic ? Anybody with me here ?

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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29982/29982-h/29982-h.htm [adopted]
Culture and Cooking, by Catherine Owen (1881)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29970 Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them by Cora Moore

The former (as the author states) is not so much a cookbook as a general guide with anecdotes.

Maybe a certain admin can record the second book as a solo and simultaneously blog about it -- call it Cori & Cora ala Julie Powell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Powell! ;)
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This particular admin is barely able to resist Catherine's book. Culture is sadly lacking in my kitchen, and it's time that was changed! :twisted:

I am also obliged to cook dead animals for my carnivorous husband and son.

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Recipes for salads, dressings, sauces and sandwiches
Author: Marie J. O'Bryan
1915

http://www.archive.org/details/recipesforsalads00obry

I like these old recipes; some look pretty good, too.

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http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19077 [adopted]
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties
With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29730
Desserts and Salads

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24542
Fifty Salads
(some gross ones too)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9938
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery
Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies

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Simple Italian Cookery by Mabel Earl McGinnis

Hi all,
I see many of you love cookbooks, and I love italian food. How about recording this for Librivox? The author was born in 1876, and the book was published in 1912. But I don't know when she died. The etext can be found at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6385 -
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Post by PatrickLondon »

Watching the latest in a glut of TV documentaries on the history of food and cookery, I wonder if there'd be any value in putting some of the historic cookery books on to Librivox, such as

John Evelyn's Acetaria (all about salad!)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15517

Hannah Glasse: The Art of Cookery [adopted]
http://archive.org/details/artcookerymadep02glasgoog

Eliza Acton: Modern Cookery
http://archive.org/details/moderncookeryin00actogoog

and no doubt there are lots of others.........
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Post by TriciaG »

We do have some cookbooks and housekeeping type books in the catalog. Here's a search result for the genre, "Cookery":

https://catalog.librivox.org/search_advanced.php?title=&author=&cat=&genre=cookery&status=all&type=&language=&date=&reader=&bc=&mc=&action=Search

But people are always welcome to add more!
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We've occasionally added recipes (or receipts, as they used to call them) to the non-fic collections. Some of them even read like free verse. :wink:
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Post by Timothy Ferguson »

I've wanted to do a confectionery book for a while, and it seems to me that, being short and simply-written, they might help with the 10 000 item target.

Frye's practical candy maker http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37073/37073-h/37073-h.htm

I may do http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37073/37073-h/37073-h.htm as a solo if no-one else has. I like old fashioned advertising copy for its ridiculous earnestness. 8)
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Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup by A. W. Bitting.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52867

128 kb, some 1.5 hours finished recording I guess.

It is science though :wink:
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Post by Carolin »

we are in the process of producing the second vegetarian cookbook this fall, but some of us also like fish :)

A Handbook of Fish Cookery by Lucy H. Yates [adopted]
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53525

Oysters and Fish by Thomas J. Murrey [adopted]
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53521
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New to Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54045
The Economical Jewish Cook by Edith B. Cohen
Orthodox Jewish recipes

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54039
Fast-Day Cookery by Grace Johnson
Roman Catholic recipes
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