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10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive's Cookbook & Home Economics Collection

10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive's Cookbook & Home Economics Collection | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
“Early cookbooks were fit for kings,” writes Henry Notaker at The Atlantic. “The oldest published recipe collections” in the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe “emanated from the palaces of monarchs, princes, and grand señores.” Cookbooks were more than recipe collections—they were guides to court etiquette and sumptuous records of luxurious living. Open Culture, openculture.com
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Judith Jones, legendary editor who first published Julia Child and Anne Frank, dies at 93

Judith Jones, legendary editor who first published Julia Child and Anne Frank, dies at 93 | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
She also rescued Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the seminal Holocaust account, from a publisher’s reject pile.
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