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Total number of records: 54

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Archives30
Books and printed items24

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture30
Cookery Collection23

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food54
occupations28
culture26
community life24
agriculture21
food crops18
nature16
animals15
english language - dialects15
folk music14

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Wright, John T10
Hay, D9
Lemery, Louis (1677-1743)9
Dunn, Ginette6
Dowd, Mary T4
Kylstra, Henk E4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Ernest3
Hackwood, Frederick William (1851-1926)3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3

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Hunger

Durack, Terry

2000

"A Sue Hines book." - t.p.

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Practica e scalcaria

Frugoli, Antonio

1638

"Discorso sopra l'officio del trinciante... libro ottavo" has special t.-p. and separate paging.

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Essai sur la nature, et le choix des alimens, suivant les différentes constitutions : ou on explique les différens effets, les avantages & les désavantages de la nourriture animale & végétale

Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Boyer de Prébandier, Pierre

1755

Part 2 has a special t.p.: Regles pratiques sur la diéte dans les differentes constitutions et maladies du corps humain.

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Les delices de la campagne : suitte du Jardinier françois, où est enseigné a preparer pour l'usage de la vie tout ce qui croist sur la terre, & dans les eaux. : Dedié aux dames mesnageres

Bonnefons, Nicolas de; Bonnefons, Nicolas de

1662

Dedication signed: R.D.C.D.W.B.D.N (i.e. Nicolas de Bonnefons). Plates comprise added ill. t.p. and two other engravings. Authority for author's name: BN.

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A treatise of foods, in general... To which are added, remarks upon each chapter, wherein their nature and uses are explained, according to the principles of chymistry and mechanism

Lémery, Louis (1677-1743); Hay, D

1704

Advertisements on leaf Y4. Translated by D. Hay. Approbation on leaf preceding title-page. Includes index. Contents: (from t.p.) First, the difference and choice which ought to be made of each...

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A treatise of foods, in general... To which are added, remarks upon each chapter, wherein their nature and uses are explained, according to the principles of chymistry and mechanism

Lémery, Louis (1677-1743); Hay, D

1704

Advertisements on leaf Y4. Translated by D. Hay. Approbation on leaf preceding title-page. Includes index. Contents: (from t.p.) First, the difference and choice which ought to be made of each...

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A treatise of foods, in general... To which are added, remarks upon each chapter, wherein their nature and uses are explained, according to the principles of chymistry and mechanism

Lémery, Louis (1677-1743); Hay, D

1704

Advertisements on leaf Y4. Translated by D. Hay. Approbation is transferred from Sig.A1 to the verso of the title-page, which alone precedes sig.A3. Includes index.

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A treatise of foods, in general... To which are added, remarks upon each chapter, wherein their nature and uses are explained, according to the principles of chymistry and mechanism

Lémery, Louis (1677-1743); Hay, D

1704

Advertisements on leaf Y4. Translated by D. Hay. Approbation is transferred from Sig.A1 to the verso of the title-page, which alone precedes sig.A3. Includes index.

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Cheesemaking: Adding Rennet
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Cheesemaking: Adding Rennet

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott adding rennet to milk in a copper cheese kettle, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The rennet is only added once the milk temperature is correct. Once the rennet is added, th...

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Sound Recording, Warwickshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Mr. D. T. Wharton, recorded in Rugby; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. The answers relate to the beef and pork s...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Wright, John T

June 1958

Frank Thorne and William Edwards, in conversation in Gittisham; Mr. Thorne talks about farm work, milking, horsemen, father a tenant farmer; [gap, 1 minute]; weeding; haymaking - Mr. Edwards describes...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Kathy Bond [collector's mother] relates her recollections of living in the Huyton area of Liverpool during World War Two - air raids, prisoners-of-war, transit camps, VJ Day celebrations, rationing, m...

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