Servants in the Kitchen: Professed Cooks and Plain Cooks

Servants in the Kitchen: Professed Cooks and Plain Cooks

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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A Good Cook

A Good Cook

A few years ago someone asked me whether my mother was a good cook.  I was at a loss to know what to say. They should have asked years earlier.…

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Unnatural Appetite

I was delighted when last week the Old Foodie, who ferrets out the most wonderful quotations, posted this: “Pleasure is the thing proposed, and because there can be none without…

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