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Resources
Discover the authors, books, websites and more
AUTHENTIC COOKERY BOOKS
of the Nineteenth-century
Isabella Beaton,
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Cookery and Household Management
(1861)
Maria Rundell,
A New System of Domestic Cookery
(1806)
Frederick Warne, Warne’s Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book (1868)
Miss E. Briggs, Instruction In Cookery (1890)
Theodore Garrett,
The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery
(1891)
SUGAR
WEBSITES AND FILMS
BOOKS
Laura Mason and Catherine Brown, The Taste of Britain (London: Harper Press, 2006)
Laura Mason, Sugar-Plums and Sherbert: a Prehistory of Sweets: The Prehistory of Sweets (Prospect Books, 2003)
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (London: Penguin, 1986)
SPICES
WEBSITES AND FILMS
English Heritage, Online Resource on the History of Gingerbread
Piccantino, Online Resource on the History of the Spice Trade
Savouring the Past, Online Resource on Spices in the Eighteenth-Century English Kitchen
BOOKS
Andrea Broomfield, Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (Praeger Publishers Inc, 2007)
Marcus Webb and Richard Craze, The Herb and Spice Companion (Todtri Book Pub, 2002)
Lizzie Collingham, The Hungry Empire (Vintage Digital, 2017)
Fruit
WEBSITES AND FILMS
The Spectator, Online Resource on The Fruits of Imperialism
BOOKS
James Walvin, Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste 1660-1800 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997)
Justo P. Zavalla, The Canning of Fruits and Vegetables (John Wiley & Sons, 1916)
Sue Shepherd, Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
OTHER USEFUL READS
Andrea Broomfield, Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (2007)
Anne Wilson, Luncheon, Nuncheon and Other Meals: Eating with the Victorians (Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1994)
Annie Gray and Andrew Hann, How to Cook the Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe (English Heritage, 2020)
Colin Spencer, British Food: an Extraordinary Thousand Years of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)
James Gregory, Of Victorians and Vegetarians : The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain (London, 2007)
Julie E. Fromer, A Necessary Luxury : Tea in Victorian England (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008)
Lucy Worsley, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home (Faber & Faber Limited, 2011)
Rebecca Stern, ‘Dangerous Provisions’, in Home Economics (Ohio State University Press, 2020)