History: Important Cooks and Cookbooks You've Never Heard Of

Each week this course will look at the life and work of some of the most important cookbooks through history and the cooks and chefs who creating them. We will begin with the earliest cookbook in English – THE FORME OF CURRIE – and come right up to the present with Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson. Each week we will look at the age in which they were writing, how they moved culinary writing on and consider some of their famous recipes, which you will be able to try at home.

You will learn about the way that recipes have been written down has changed, how cooking and cooking techniques have developed and how that has influenced the recording of the fashionable foods of the day. From here you might want to consider another culinary history course, holding your own historic food party or become a collector of cookery books