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British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks

Curated by ACT

View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the period, and links to cookbooks produced before and after the 1700s allow comparison of cuisines across six centuries of British history.

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)