"The Art of Cookery" is the only books of its kind to have come out
of an English religious community. It is also that very rare thing,
a cookery book of the English 18th-century that has the author's
own recipes throughout; nothing seems to have been plagiarized or
borrowed from other writers. The Dean of Durham Cathedral, who
employed the author, had a lavish grant for entertaining and his
generous hospitality meant that his cook had to cater for all
levels of society, from canons of the Cathedral with sophisticated
tastes such as the gourmand Dr. Jacque Sterne, to tradesmen, poor
widows, and those of even more modest status. Thacker's book keeps
many pre-Reformation recipes and thus shows the gradual transition
in the Cathedral's eating habits. This facsimilie is introduced by
the well-known food historian Ivan Day who examines the recipes and
reveals the remarkable tradition of ecclesiastical hospitality that
survived at Durham for more than eight hundred years.
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