SOURCES

Even more important than a list of favorite blogs, this page refers you to historic texts in which I find material for adapting in the kitchen. To find the recipes inspired from these sources, look up the author's name in the search engine. 

 
  

COOKERY BOOKS

• Apicius or De re coquinare, 3rd century AD
• Deipnosophistae, 3rd century AD
• Liber de Coquina, late 13th-early 14th c.
  
• The Forme of Cury by the Master cooks of King Richard II, 1390 (with Ancient Cookery, 1391)
• Le Ménagier de Paris, 1393
  
• Joseph Cooper, The art of cookery refin'd and augmented, 1654
• Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art & Mystery of Cooking, 1660
• Bartolomeo Stefani, L' arte di ben cucinare, 1662
• Hannah Woolley, The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet, 1672
  
• François Massialot, Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs et les fruits, 1692
• Robert Smith, Court Cookery, or the Complete English Cook, 1725
• Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 1747
• Menon, La science du maître d'hotel cuisinier, 1747
• Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English Housekeeper, 1769
• Eliza Smith, The Compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion, 1773
  
• Vincenzo Corrado, Il Cuoco Gallante, 1793
• Amelia Simmons, American cookery, 1796
  
• Maria Rundell, A New System of Domestic Cookery, 1805 [also: Modern Domestic Cookery, 1856 edition]
• Mary Randolph, The Virginia housewife :: or, The methodical cook, 1824
  
• Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, Domácý Kuchařka, 1826
• Eliza Leslie, Seventy-five receipts for pastry, cakes and sweetmeats, 1828
• Lettice Bryan, The Kentucky Housewife, 1839
• Elizabeth Acton, Modern Cookery, in all its branches, 1845
• Henriette Davidis, Praktisches Kochbuch, 1845
• Eliza Leslie, Miss Leslie's new cookery book, 1857
• Elena Molokhovets, A Gift to Young Housewives, 1861
• Jules & Alphonse Gouffé, The royal cookery book, 1867
• Pierre Lacam, Le nouveau pâtissier-glacier français et étranger, 1878
• Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cookbook, 1886
• Pellegrino Artusi, La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene, 1891
• Agnes Bertha Marshall, The Book of Ices, 1893
  
• Lizzie Heritage, Cassells' New Universal Cookery Book, 1894
• Agnes Bertha Marshall, Fancy Ices, 1894 
• Frederick Vine, Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-tray and Window, 1898
• Will O. Rigby, Rigby's reliable candy teacher, 1909
  
• A. C. Vangalder, Modern Women of America Cookbook, 1913
• Melanie Reichelt, Two hundred famous Viennese recipes, 1931
  
• Ruth Graves Wakefield, Toll House True and Tried Recipes, 1940
  

 

 FARM & HOUSEKEEPING GUIDES

• Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura, ca. 160BC
• Le Ménagier de Paris, anonymously published in 1393
• John Russell, The Boke of Nurture, ca. 1460 
• Gervase Markham, Country contentments, or The English Huswife, 1615 
• Sir Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. opened, 1669
• Isabella Mary Beeton, Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861
• Mary Jewry, Warne's model cookery and housekeeping book, 1868

 

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Alexandre Dumas père, Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, 1873
  
• Albert Seigneurie, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de l'épicerie et des industries annexes, 1904

 

HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY, FOLKLORE & ANTHROPOLOGY

• Herodotus, Ιστορίαι (Histories), 440BC
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae, vol. XVIII, 79 AD
• The Primary Chronicle or The Tale of Bygone Years, ca. 1113
  
• Hildegard of Bingen, Physica, 1151-1158
• M. & N. Psilakis, Κρητική παραδοσιακή κουζίνα, 1995
• M. & N. Psilakis, Το ψωμί και τα γλυκίσματα των Ελλήνων, 2001
  

 

LETTERS BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

• Emily Dickinson, Letter #369 (to Ms. Elizabeth Holland), 1871

 

NOVELS

• Jane Austen, Emma, 1816 
• Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
• J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937
• C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, 1950
• Annemarie Selinco, Désirée, 1951
• J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954