Katja’s Medieval Cooking:

Resources I Use for Researching Period Food

 

Author

Title

Publisher/origin

Year

 

Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities, The

facsimile

1690

 

Accomplist Ladys Delight, The

facsimile

1675

 

Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus or Excellent & Approved Receipts and Experiments in Cookery

facsimile

1658

 

Assize of Bread, The

facsimile

 

 

Boke of Husbandry, The

facsimile

 

 

Book Of Fruits And Flowers, A

Falconwood Press

1991

 

Booke of Cookery

facsimile

1500

 

Choice manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick, A

facsimile

1653

 

Compleat Servant-Maid

facsimile

1677

 

Court and Kitchin of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwell

facsimile

1664

 

Gentlewomans Delight in Cookery, The

facsimile

 

 

good Huswives handmaid, The

facsimile

 

 

Goodman of Paris, the (Coulton translation)

Harcourt, Brace

1928

 

Larousse Gastronomique

Crown

1961

 

Larousse Gastronomique

Clarkson Potter

2001

 

Leicester-shire Frolick

facsimile

 

 

Polidoro Virgile

online copy

1546

 

Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye, A

online copy

1545

 

Rare and Excellent Receipts

facsimile

1690

 

Rates of the Custome House, The

facsimile

 

 

Salt and Fisher, A Discourse therof

facsimile

1682

 

Strange Banquet, A

facsimile

 

 

True Gentlewoman’s Delight, A

facsimile

1653

 

Whole Duty of A Woman, The

facsimile

1696

 

Um tratado da cozinha portuguesa do seculo XV (A Treatise of Portuguese Cuisine from the 15th Century), unknown translation

online

?

Adamson, Melitta Weiss

Daz buch von guter spise

Krems

2000

Adamson, Melitta Weiss

Food and drink in medical-dietetic Fachliteratur from 1050 to 1400 (abstract)

online print

1989

Adamson, Melitta Weiss

Food in the Middle Ages; A Book of Essays

photocopy

1995

Adamson, Melitta Weiss

Regional Cuisines of Medieval Cuisine

Routledge

2002

Albala, Ken

Eating Right in the Renaissance

Univ of California Press

2002

Anderson, Frank

An Illustrated History of the Herbals

Columbia Univ Press

1977

Anderson, John

A Fifteenth Century Cookry Boke (mostly Bodleian MS)

Scribner & Sons

1962

Apicius (Edwards, John)

The Roman Cookery of Apicius

 

1984

Apicius (Flowers & Rosenbaum)

The Roman Cookery Book

 

1958

Apicius (Vehling)

Cooking And Dining In Imperial Rome

Dover

1977

Arano, Luisa Cogliati

The Medieval Health Handbook (Tacuinum Sanitatis)

George Braziller

1996

Aresty, Esther

The Delectable Past

Simon and Schuster

1964

Arn, Mary-Jo

Medieval Food and Drink

Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies

1995

Austin, Thomas

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books (Harleian MS)

Early English Text Society

2000

Barley, William

Epulario, or the Italian Banquet (1598)

Falconwood Press

1990

Bayard, Tania

Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: medieval gardens and the gardens of the Cloisters

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1985

Beebe, Ruth Anne

Sallets, Humbles & Shrewsbury Cakes

David Godine

1976

Black, Maggie

Food And Cooking In Medieval Britain

English Heritage

1985

Black, Maggie

The Medieval Cookbook

Thames & Hudson

1992

Black, Maggie and Brears, Peter

A Taste of History: 10,000 Years of Food in Britain

English Heritage

1993

Bober, Phyllis Pray

Art, Culture & Cuisine: Ancient & Medieval Gastronomy

Univ of Chicago Press

1999

Boorde, Andrew

The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge and Dyetary

Early English Text Society

2000

Brears, Peter

All the King’s Cooks

Souvenir Press

1999

Broceliande, Yseult of

The Best of A Watched Pot, Vols 1 & 2

Alfarhaugr Publishing Society

1991

Brothwell, Don and Patricia

Food in Antiquity

Johns Hopkins

1998

Brown, Michele

Food By Appointment

Elm Tree Books

1977

Buhler, Curt

Prayers and Charms in Certain Middle English Scrolls

Speculum

1964

Bullough, Vern

Female Longevity and Diet in the Middle Ages

Speculum photocopy

1980

Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft: an historical sketch of early English medicine

Rose & Nefr Press

1992

Cariadoc and Elizabeth

A Miscelleny (7th Edition)

self published

1996

Cariadoc and Elizabeth

A Miscelleny (9th Edition)

online copy

2000

Carroll, Ricki

Home Cheese Making 3rd Edition

Storey Books

2002

Caton, Mary Anne

Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare’s England

Folger Shakespeare Library

1999

Cawley, A.C.

The Grotesque Feast in the Prima Pastorum

Speculum

1955

Chambers, R.W.

A Fifteenth-Century Courtesy Book

Early English Text Society

1962

Charsley, Simon

Wedding Cakes and Cultural History

Routledge

1992

Columella

On Agriculture, Books 1 and 11

Harvard Univ Press

1997

Cooper, Joseph

The Art of Cookery Refined and Augmented

facsimile

1654

Corwin of Darkwater

A Fewmet Receipt Book

Lord Stephan Wolfgang won Ravensburg

1991

Cosman, Madeliene Pelner

Fabulous Feasts

George Brazlier

1976

Craig, Diana

The Life and Works of Arcimboldo

Smithmark

1996

Culpeper, Nicholas

Culpeper’s Complete Herbal & English Physician

Meyerbooks

1990

da Messisbugo, Cristoforo

Libro Novo (in Italian, with Basilius’ trans.)

facsimile

1557

Dalby, Andrew

The Classial Cookbook

British Museum Press

2000

Dalby