In my last post, Memories of English Farmhouse Cooking: Beyond England, I talked about three books that reminded me of the English farmhouse cooking with which I grew up: Joan…
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Over many years in the kitchen, I have found three, and only three cookbooks that gave me a shock of recognition, only three that have evoked the cooking I knew…
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I don’t think it’s possible to address the question of whether employers appropriated the culinary knowledge of their cooks without understanding the different kinds of cooks in domestic service. Four…
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