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Amongst BBC Books' best known titles are cookery books by former TV cook Delia Smith, wildlife titles by Sir David Attenborough and gardening titles by Alan Titchmarsh. In the BBC Publishing days, it turned down The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , [ 1 ] a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide.
Ann Cook used the platform of her 1754 book Professed Cookery to launch an aggressive attack on The Art of Cookery. [17] The Art of Cookery was a bestseller for a century after its first publication, making Glasse one of the most famous cookbook authors of her time. [18] The book was "by far the most popular cookbook in eighteenth-century ...
Cawley has published several cookery books: The New English Cookery, Octopus Books 1986, Not Quite Vegetarian, Orbis 1986, The Artful Cook, Macdonald Orbis 1988, which he also illustrated with his own drawings and paintings and That's Entertaining a Headline Book for Channel 4 1990.
Hannah Glasse (née Allgood; March 1708 – 1 September 1770) was an English cookery writer of the 18th century. Her first cookery book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1747, became the best-selling recipe book that century. It was reprinted within its first year of publication, appeared in 20 editions in the 18th century ...
Xavier Marcel Boulestin (1878 – 20 September 1943) was a French chef, restaurateur, and the author of cookery books that popularised French cuisine in the English-speaking world. Born in Poitiers in France (Poitou region), Boulestin tried a number of occupations before finding his role as a restaurateur.
Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking: BBC Books 21 Feb 2019 [5] Mary Berry Cooks Up a Feast: Dorling Kindersley 3 Oct 2019: Co-written with Lucy Young [6] Mary Berry's Simple Comforts: BBC Books 17 Sep 2020 [7] Mary Berry Cooks to Perfection: Dorling Kindersley 3 Mar 2021 [8] Love to Cook: BBC Books 28 Oct 2021 [9] Cook and Share: Ebury Publishing: 1 ...
Pynson's book was evidently largely forgotten by the 18th century, when Samuel Pegge printed a survey of early English cookery books in the introduction to his edition of The Forme of Cury in 1780. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In 1810, in Typographical Antiquities , Thomas Dibdin recorded that it was not known if anyone still possessed a copy.
The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie; The Cook's Decameron; D. Delightes for Ladies; E. English Bread and Yeast Cookery; F. The Flavour Thesaurus; Food in ...