Books on Medieval and Renaissance Cuisine
- Multi-Regional Cuisine
- The Classical Cookbook*
- Andrew Dalby & Sally Grainger, J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, 1996
ISBN: 0-892-36394-0
- A Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Cookbooks*
Volumes I & II
- Compiled by Duke Cariadoc of the Bow & Mistress Elizabeth Cook
Includes:
A Baghdad Cookery Book
Ancient Cookery
Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books
Delights for Ladies
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, Opened
The Forme of Cury, A Roll of Ancient English Cookery
A Noble Boke Off Cookry Ffor a Prynce Houssolde
A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye
A Selection From An Old Icelandic Medical Miscelleny
The Kitab al-Tibakhah of Ibn al-Mubarrad
An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the Thirteenth Century
Daz Buoch von Guoter Spise
Le Viandier de Taillevent
Traité de Cuisine
Le Menagier De Paris
Du Fait de Cuisine
Libro de guisados
Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin
Three recipes from a 12th century manuscript of Mappae Clavicula
Some Recipes translated from the Arabic by Charles Perry
A Sixteenth Century Beer Recipe, from Harrison's preface to Hollinshed's Chronicles
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- Cooks, Gluttons & Gourmets
A History of Cookery
- Betty Wason, Doubleday & Co., 1962
ASIN: B00005XE0Z
- The Cornucopia
- Judith Herman, Harper & Row, 1973
ISBN: 0-060-11841-5
- The Delectable Past
- Esther B. Aresty, Simon & Schuster, 1978
ASIN: 0672525321
- Great Cooks and Their Recipes*
From Taillevent to Escoffier
- Anne Wilson, McGraw-Hill, 1977
ASIN: B000WXSPNO
- The Medieval Cookbook*
- Maggie Black, Thames & Hudson, 1992
ISBN: 0-500-01548-1
- Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History
- Maggie Black, English Heritage, 2003
ISBN: 978-1-850-74867-0
- The Medieval Kitchen*
- Odile Redon, Françoise Sabban & Silvano Serventi; The University of Chicago Press, 1998
ISBN: 0-226-70685-0
- The Original Mediterranean Cuisine*
- Barbara Santich, Independent Pub Group, 1996
ASIN: 155652272X
- Renaissance Recipes
Painters & Food
- Gilian Riley, Pomegranate, 1993
ISBN: 1-566-40577-7
- A Sip Through Time*
- Cindy Renfrow, C. Renfrow, 1994
ISBN: 0-962-85983-4
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- Arabic Cuisine
- A Baghdad Cookery Book
- Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan al-Baghdadi
translated by Charles Perry, Prospect Books, 2006
ISBN: 1-903-01842-0
- A la table du Grand Turc
- Stephane Yerasimos; Sindbad/Editions Actes Sud Arles, 2001
ISBN: 2-742-73443-0
- In a Caliph's Kitchen
- David Waines, Riad El-Rayyes Booksellers, 1995
ISBN: 1-869-84460-2
- Medieval Arab Cookery
- Maxine Rodinson, A. J. Arberry & Charles Perry; Prospect Books, 1998
ISBN: 0-907-32591-2
- The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu
The Sultan's Book of Delights
- translated by Norah M. Titley; RoutledgeCurzon Abingdon, 2005
ISBN: 0-415-35059-X
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- Egyptian Cuisine
- Egyptian Cooking - A practical Guide
- Samia Abdennour, Hippocrene Books, 1998
ISBN: 0-781-80643-7
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- English Cuisine
- The Book of Marmalade
- C. Anne Wilson, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999
ISBN: 978-0-812-21727-8
- The British Museum Cookbook
- Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, British Museum Press, 1988
ISBN: 978-0-714-11663-1
- The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
- Kenelm Digby, IndyPublish, 2005
ISBN: 1-421-96038-9
- Concordance of English Recipes
Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries
- Constance B. Hieatt, J. Terry Nutter, & Johnna H. Holloway, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006
ISBN: 978-0-866-98357-0
- Consuming Passions
- Phillippa Pullar, Penguin, 1970
- Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
- Peter Brears, Prospect Books, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-903-01855-2
- Curye on Inglysch*
- Edited by Constance B. Hieatt & Sharon Butler, Early English Text Society, 1985
ISBN: 0-197-22409-1
- Delights for Ladies
- Sir Hugh Plat, 1628 (first published 1600)
- Dining with William Shakespeare
- Madge Lorwin, Simon & Schuster, 1976
ISBN: 0-689-10731-5
- Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book
- Elinor Fettiplace & Hilary Spurling , Viking Adult, 1987
ISBN: 978-0-670-81592-0
- The Englishman's Food
- J. C. Drummond & Anne Wilbraham, J. Cape London, 1939
- A Fifteenth Century Cookery Boke
- Edited by John L. Anderson, Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1962
- The Forme of Cury
- Samuel Pegge, IndyPublish, 2001
ISBN: 1-428-02801-3
- Londoners' Larder
English Cuisine from Chaucer to Present
- Annette Hope, Mainstream Publishing, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-840-18965-0
- An Ordinance of Pottage
- Constance Hieatt, University of Virginia Press, 1988
ASIN: 0907325386
- Pleyn Delit
- Second edition; Constance B. Hieatt, Brenda Hosington & Sharon Butler, University of Toronto Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-802-07632-7
- Take a Buttock of Beefe
- Verity Isitt, Talman Co., 1988
ISBN: 978-0-907-06957-7
- Take a Thousand Eggs or More
- Cindy Renfrow, Second Edition, C. Renfrow, 1997
ISBN: 0-962-85984-2
- Tudor Cookery: Recipes and History
- Peter Brears, English Heritage, 2003
ISBN: 978-1-850-74868-7
- Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books*
- Edited by Thomas Austin, Early English Text Society, 2000
ISBN: 0-859-91849-1
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- French Cuisine
- The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris)
A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by A Citizen of Paris, c.1393
- Eileen Power , The Boydell Press, 2006
ISBN: 1-843-83222-4
- Savoring the Past
The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789
- Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Touchstone, 1996
ISBN: 0-684-81857-4
- The Vivendier*
- Terence Scully (editor), Prospect Books, 1998
ISBN: 978-0-907-32581-9
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- German Cuisine
- Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin*
- Herausgegeben von Hugo Stopp, Mit einer Übersetzung von Ulrike Gießmann, Universitätsverlag C. Winter Heidelberg, 1980
A transliteration into Modern German of the work of Sabina Welserin
ISBN: 3-533-02905-0
- Daz Bůch von Gůter Spise*
- Melitta Weiss Adamson, Krems, 2000
A translation of a 14th century German Cookbook
ISBN: 3-901-09412-1
- Libellus de Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern Cookery Book*
- Edited and Translated by Rudolf Grewe & Constance B. Hieatt, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001
A translation of a 12th or 13th century Germanic recipe collection
ISBN: 0-866-98264-7
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- Greek Cuisine
- Siren Feasts
A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece
- Andrew Dalby, Routledge, 1996
ISBN: 0-415-15657-2
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- Italian Cuisine
- The Art of Cooking*
The First Modern Cookery Book
- Translated by Luigi Ballerini, Jeremy Parzen, Stefania Barzini, University of California Press, 2005
A translation of the work of Maestro Martino of Como, 15th century
ISBN: 0-52-023271-2
- Libro Novo nel qual s'insegna a far d'ogni sorte di vivanda
- Christofaro di Messisbugo, 1557
Facsimile, Nachdruck Sala Bolgnese, 1980
- Liber de Coquina
- Translated by Robert Maier, F. S. Friedrich Verlag, 2005
This is a translation into German
ISBN: 3-937-44608-7
- The Neapolitan Recipe Collection
Cuoco Napoletano
- Terence Peter Scully , University of Michigan Press, 2000
ISBN: 0-472-10972-3
- Platina's On Right Pleasure and Good Health*
- Translated and Abridged by Mary Ella Milham, Pegasus Press, 1999
A translation of De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine by Bartolomeo Sacchi
ISBN: 1-889-81812-7
- Pomp And Sustenance
Twenty Five Centuries Of Sicilian Food
- Mary Simeti Taylor, Ecco, 1998
ISBN: 0-880-01610-8
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- Jewish Cuisine
- A Drizzle of Honey*
The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
- David M. Gitlitz & Linda Kay Davidson , St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
Thousands of Iberian Jews were forced to convert to Christianity in the late 15th century, and while many assimilated, others clung to earlier customs including dietary edicts.
ISBN: 0-312-26730-4
- The Sephardic Kitchen
The Healthy Food and Rich Culture of the Mediterranean Jews
- Robert Sternberg, Cookbooks, 1996
Recipes of Mediterranean Jews after expulsion from Spain and Portugal in the 1490's, 16th century
ISBN: 0-060-17691-1
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- Polish Cuisine
- Food and Drink in Medieval Poland
Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past
- Maria Dembinska, William Woys Weaver, Magdalena Thomas (Translator); University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999
ISBN: 0-812-23224-0
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- Portuguese Cuisine
- Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages
- A. H. De Oliveira Marques, Vitor Andre & S.S. Wyatt, University of Wisconsin Press, 1971
Translated recipes from Tratado de Cozinha, Seculo XVI from an unpublished dissertation edited by Maria Jose da Gama Lobo Salema A Treatise on Cooking (1956), 16th century
ISBN: 0-29-905584-1
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- Roman Cuisine
- Apicius Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
- Joseph Dommers Vehling, Dover, 1978
ISBN: 0-486-23563-7
- Around the Tables of Romans
Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome
- Patrick Faas, Palgrave MacMillan, 2002
ISBN: 0-312-23958-0
- Roman Cookery
Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens
- Mark Grant, Serif Publishing, 1999
ISBN: 1-897-95939-7
- Roman Cookery
Elegant & Easy Recipes from History's First Gourmet
- John Edwards, Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1986
ISBN: 978-0-881-79011-5
- Roman Cookery
Recipes & History
- Jane Renfrew, English Heritage, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-850-74870-0
- The Roman Cookery Book
- Barbara Flowers & Elisabeth Rosenbaum, Peter Nevill Limited, 1958
- A Taste of Ancient Rome
- Ilaria Gozzini Giacosa & Anna Herklotz, University of Chicago Press, 1994
ISBN: 0-226-29032-8
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- Russian Cuisine
- The Domostroi
Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
- Edited by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy, Cornell University Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-801-49689-6
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- Spanish Cuisine
- The Mirror of Coitus
- Edited and translated by Michael Solomon, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1990
A translation and edition of the 15th century Speculum al Foderi. Although this is a treatise on coitus, it does have recipes and discusses food.
ASIN: 0940639483
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- Non-Recipe Books of Interest
- Ancient Inventions
- Peter James & Nick Thorpe, Ballantine Books, 1995
ISBN: 0-345-40102-6
- Arranging the Meal
A History of Table Service in France
- Jean-Louis Flandrin, University of California Press, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-520-23885-5
- Art, Culture, and Cuisine
Ancient and Medival Gastronomy
- Phyllis Pray Bober, University of Chicago Press, 1999
ISBN: 0-226-06253-8
- The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages*
- Terence Scully, The Boydell Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-851-15611-8 hatdback
ISBN: 0-851-15430-1 paperback
- Banquetting Stuffe
- C. Anne Wilson, Edinburgh University Press, 1991
ISBN: 978-0-748-60103-5
- British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History
Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
- Colin Spencer, Columbia University Press, 2003
ISBN: 0-231-13110-0
- The Cambridge World History of Food
- Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple & Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, Cambridge University Press, 2000
ISBN: 0-521-40216-6
- Charlemagne's Tablecloth*
A Piquant History of Feasting
- Nichola Fletcher, St. Martin's Press, 2004
ISBN: 0-312-34068-0
- The Cuisine of Hungary
- George Lang, Bonanza, 1990
ISBN: 978-0-517-16963-6
- Culture of the Fork
- Giovanni Rebora & Albert Sonnenfeld, Columbia University Press, 2001
ISBN: 0-231-12150-4
- Dangerous Tastes*
- Andrew Dalby, British Museum Press 2000
ISBN: 978-0-520-23674-5
- The Elder
In History, Myth and Cookery
- Ria Loohuizen, David Brown Book Company, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-903-01831-6
- The Exquisite Table
A History of French Cuisine
- Estsher B. Aresty, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1980
ASIN: B000OFQ762
- Fast and Feast Food in Medieval Society
- Bridget Ann Henish, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986
ISBN: 0-271-00424-X
- Feast: A History of Grand Eating
- Roy Strong, Harcourt, 2003
ISBN: 0-151-00758-6
- Feeding Desire
Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005
- Sarah D. Coffin, Ellen Lupton, Darra Goldstein & Barbara Bloemink; Assouline , 2006
ISBN: 978-2-843-23845-1
- Fish Saving
A History of Fish Processing from Ancient to Modern Times
- C. L. Cutting, Philosophical Library New York, 1956
- Food & Drink in Britain
From the Stone Age to the 19th Century
- C. Anne Wilson , Academy Chicago Publishers, 2003
ISBN: 0-897-33487-6
- Food and Feast in Tudor England*
- Alison Sim, Sutton Publishing, 1997
ISBN: 0-750-91476-9
- Food in Antiquity
A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples
- Don & Patricia Brothwell, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
ISBN: 0-801-85740-6
- Food in History*
- Reay Tannahill, Three Rivers Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-517-88404-6
- Food in Medieval Times
Food through History
- Melitta Weiss Adamson, Greenwood Press, 2004
ISBN: 0-313-32147-7
- Food in the Ancient World
Food through History
- Joan P. Alcock , Greenwood Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-313-33003-4
- Food in the Middle Ages
A Book of Essays
- Melitta Weiss Adamson, Garland, 1995
ISBN: 0-815-31345-4
- Herbs for the Mediaeval Household
- Margaret B. Freeman, Little Brown & Company, 1943
ASIN: 0870990675
- History of Food*
- Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat & Anthea Bell, Blackwell Publishers, 1994
ISBN: 0-631-19497-5
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast
The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
- Caroline Walker Bynum, University of California Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-520-06329-5
- Kitchen Utensils
Names, Origins, and Definitions Through the Ages
- Phillips V. Brooks, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-403-96619-3
- The Medical Formulary or Aqrabadhin of al-Kindi
- Martin Levey (trans.), University of Wisconsin, 1966
ASIN: B001A0IRDQ
- The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi
- Martin Levey (trans.), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1967
ASIN: B000Q11JBC
- The Medieval Garden
- Sylvia Landsberg, Thames & Hudson Art, 1995
ISBN: 978-1-850-74903-5
- Medieval Gardens
- Anne Jennings, English Heritage, 2004
ISBN: 0-500-01691-7
- Medieval Holidays and Festivals
A Calendar of Celebrations
- Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Scribner Book Company, 1981
ISBN: 978-0-684-17172-2
- Mistress, Maids and Men
Baronial Life in the Thirteenth Century
- Margaret Wade Labarge, Phoenix Press, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-842-12499-4
- Near a Thousand Tables*
A History of Food
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Free Press, 2002
ISBN: 0-743-22644-5
- Les Objets de la vie Domestique
- Raymond Lecoq, Berger-Levrault, 1979
ISBN: 978-2-701-30218-8
- The Penguin Companion to Food*
- Alan Davidson, Penguin Books, 2002
Best described as an encyclopedia on food, containing historical information.
Also published as The Oxford Companion to Food as a Hardbound edition.
ISBN: 0-14-200163-5
- Pre-Industrial Utensils 1150-1800
- Alma Ruempol, University of Washington Press, 1993
ISBN: 9-067-07252-4
- Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe
- Melitta Weiss Adamson, Routledge, 2001
ISBN: 0-415-92994-6
- Roman Gardens
- Anne Jennings, English Heritage, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-850-74935-6
- Sabur Ibn Sahl the Small Dispensatory
- Oliver Kahl, Brill Academic Publishers, 2003
ISBN: 978-9-004-12996-2
- The Secret Middle Ages
Discovering the Real Medieval World
- Malcolm Jones, Praeger Publishers, 2003
ISBN: 0-750-92585-6
- Six Thousand Years of Bread
Its Holy and Unholy History
- H.E. Jacob, Skyhorse Publishing, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-602-39124-6
- The Taste of Conquest
The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
- Michael Krondl, Ballantine Books, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-345-48083-5
- A Taste of History
10,000 Years of Food in Britain
- Peter Brears, Maggie Black, Gill Corbishley, Jane Renfrew & Jennifer Stead, British Museum Press, 1993
ISBN: 978-0-714-11788-1
- Tudor & Stuart Gardens
- Anne Jennings, English Heritage, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-850-74936-3
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- Journals
- Gastronomica
- The Journal of Food and Culture
- The Madrone Culinary Guild Pamphlets
- Tourney Cooking: Recipes to enjoy at outdoor event
- A Culinary Reference Manual
- Researching a medieval Recipe
- Silk Road
- Exploring Italian Renaissance Cuisine
- A dinner from Moghul India
- Dining on the Edge, Volume I
- Dining on the Edge, Volume II
- A Brief Overview of Early Spanish Cuisine
- French Food in The Renaissance
- A Weekend at the Staggering Hedgehog Inn
- An Apician Feast
- Fall Inn
- Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
- Food and the Memory, 2000 Proceedings
- Milk: Beyond the Dairy, 1999 Proceedings
- Food in the Arts, 1998 Proceedings
- Fish: Food from the Waters, 1997 Proceedings
- Disappearing Foods, 1994 Proceedings
- Look & Feel, 1993 Proceedings
- Spicing up the Palate, 1992 Proceedings
- Public Eating, 1991 Proceedings
- Feasting & Fasting, 1990 Proceedings
- Staple Foods, 1989 Proceedings
- The Cooking Pot, 1988 Proceedings
- Taste, 1987 Proceedings
- The Cooking Medium, 1986 Proceedings
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