IT was with something of a shock that I woke one morning and found myself a collector of cookery books. I am not sure which seemed the more extraordinary, — that there should be cookery books to ...

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When Dawn Hudson got word on Jan. 7 that she needed to evacuate her Pacific Palisades home, her cook’s instincts kicked in. Thinking she’d be home the next day, she spent more time gathering ...

In his informative, if ponderous, introduction, Ballerini offers a window into the life of 15thcentury culinary whiz Maestro Martino, who's credited by most scholars to be the father of modern Italian ...

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In any case, his book, to look at, is the most impressive in my library. I have also a graceful quarto, called Juris Evidentiæ Demonstratio in Materia Alimentarum et Sumptuum Litis, by Francesco Maria ...