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Total number of records: 1600

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Books and printed items1431
Archives169

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Cookery Collection1378
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture115
Brotherton Collection16
Herbert Read Collection12
English Literature3
Leeds Russian Archive2
Liddle Collection2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking1600
food198
cooking, english133
home economics108
recipes104
community life66
culture64
gastronomy64
cooking, french62
manners and customs57

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France13
England7
Great Britain5
Italy4
Liguria (Italy)3
Provence (France)3
Nice (France)2
Switzerland2
Yorkshire (England)2
Australien1

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People and organisationsCount
Mardon, Gisele (1930-2015)73
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)33
Patten, Marguerite24
Simon, Andre Louis (1877-1970)22
Wine and Food Society20
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)19
Apicius14
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)13
Good Housekeeping Institute (Great Britain)13
Great Britain13

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From 160038
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From 1800225
From 19001066
From 2000102

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Up to 1899197
Up to 19991036
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Traditional food east and west of the Pennines

Brears, Peter C D; Wilson, C Anne; Hunter, Lynette; Pollard Helen; Stead, Jennifer

1994

"First published in 1991 by Edinburgh University Press"--Title page verso. "Based on papers from The Third Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions, April 1988, with additional chapters. This i...

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Traditional food in Yorkshire

Brears, Peter C D; Wilson, C Anne

[1987]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Bibliographie gastronomique

Vicaire, Georges (1853-1921); Ginisty, Paul (1855-1932)

1890

"Tiré à 50 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande; 450 sur beau papier velin."

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A learned dissertation on dumpling; its dignity, antiquity, and excellence. With a word upon pudding : and many other useful discoveries, of great benefit to the publick

Carey, Henry (1687?-1743); Gordon, Thomas (1750)

1726

The authorship of the dissertation has been attributed, on internal and external evidence, to Henry Carey. Erroneously attributed to Thomas Gordon. Cf. BM; Halkett & Laing; CBEL; Wood, F.T. An 18th ce...

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The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: occasion'd principally by the title of a book publish'd by the doctor, being the works of Apicius Coelius, concerning the soups and sauces of the antients...[etc.]. To which is added, Horace's Art of poetry, in Latin

King, William (1663-1712); Horace; Lister, Martin (1638?-1712); Apicius

[1709]

The art of cookery and The art of poetry printed as parallel texts, p. 52-135. The author of the 'Journey to London' = William King (OCLC, ESTC). Date of publication from ESTC.

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Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.

c.1720-1830

Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...

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Rose recipes

Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

[1939]

Title and text within ornamental borders.

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Four hundred prize recipes : reprinted from the Daily Telegraph

[1934?]

Cover title: 400 prize recipes for practical cookery.

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A recipe book for the AGA Cooker

Aga Heat, Ltd

[1947?]

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A recipe book for the AGA Cooker

Aga Heat, Ltd

[1947?]

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The Cannon cookery book

Taylor, D D Cottington

[193-?]

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