The Cornucopia: Being a Kitchen Entertainment And Cookbook - Hardcover

Judith Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman, the daughter-mother team that compiled this volume, tested more than a thousand recipes and gathered thousands of pieces of food lore from texts in the Huntington Library's rare book collections.

"I am enjoying it immensely, and it is one of those books that makes one want to try things outlike the puff pastry on page 233...I love the way the book is set up...that the recipes have been left as written...my congratulations for a job well done."Julia Child

FROM REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION:

"With a truly handsome format featuring many engravings, this is a fine staple for culinary historians and practitionersand an exemplary gift."Kirkus Reviews

"This is an exploration, curious and fascinated, by a couple of nosers-around in the vast, uncollected library of five centuries of the English printed word on food, from 1390 to 1899. In the finished product the Hermans preserve not only the recipes but their original language, and a great deal of the lore they dug up in the course of their seeking."Village Voice

"This handsome book is a delight to the culinary historian and the adventurous cook."Library Journal

"The Cornucopiais pure entertainment such general easy jolliness is hard to find and much to be savored. I can find nothing but plain enjoyment in the book."M. F. K. Fisher,The New Yorker

"Recipes, lore and anecdotes from the old world and the new, dating from 1390 to 1899, make up the subject matter, and the handsome layout and [reproductions of ] attractive old engravings of foods and utensils make it inviting to dip into."New York Magazine

"This fine smorgasbord will whet the appetite for the original books from which it was assembled."New York Times