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The original text was printed for the use of professional chefs and kitchen staff; Escoffier's introduction to the first edition explains his intention that Le Guide Culinaire be used toward the education of the younger generation of cooks. This usage of the book still holds today; many culinary schools still use it as their culinary textbook.
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...
The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Old French queuerie, 'cookery') [2] is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes.Although the original manuscript is lost, the text appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II".
The Cookery Collection was awarded Designation status in 2005 by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. [2] The Designation Scheme is a mark of distinction which recognises collections in non-national institutions of outstanding national and international importance for users. [3] The scheme is now administered by Arts Council England.
Project Gutenberg Canada, also known as Project Gutenburg of Canada, is a Canadian digital library founded July 1, 2007 by Dr. Mark Akrigg. [1] The website allows Canadian residents to create e-texts and download books, including those that are otherwise not in the public domain in other countries.
[2] It was one of the first cookery books to provide lists of ingredients, exact quantities, and cooking times, and to include Eastern recipes for chutneys. The book was well received on its first appearance; critics thought it the best cookery book they had seen, combining as it did clarity of instructions with excellent organisation.
The Liber de Coquina ("The book of cooking/cookery") is one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. Two codices that contain the work survive from the beginning of the 14th century. Both are preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. [1]
Utilis Coquinario is an English cookery book written in Middle English in the late fourteenth [1] or very early fifteenth century. [2] The title has been translated as "Useful for the Kitchen". [3] The text is contained in the Hans Sloane collection of manuscripts in the British Library and is numbered Sloane MS 468. [4] [5]