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Food is a constantly changing, ever evolving subject. Favorite dishes are transported in writing or in memory to new locations where, using what’s available, they take on new lives and new identities.
That, essentially, is the crux of The Food Timeline, a fascinating web site that examines the evolution of food since, well, since the beginning of time. Not only does the Timeline document the appearance or domestication of various foods (Girl Scout cookies in 1922, chickpeas and lettuce around 5500 BC), it offers a wealth of information and links for recipes, essays, and other wonderful material. If you love history and food, you should bookmark this web site and plan on losing at least a few hours as you travel from link to link.
One of the sites to which the Food Timeline links is
a reprint of the 1615 "New Booke of Cookerie" which promised its readers "the newest and most commendable Fashion for Dressing or Sowcing, eyther Flesh, Fish, or Fowle. Together with making of all sorts of Iellyes, and other made-Dishes for seruice; both to beautifie and adorne eyther Nobleman or Gentlemans Table. Hereunto also is added the most exquisite London Cookerie. All set forth according to the now, new, English and French fashion."
a reprint of the 1615 "New Booke of Cookerie" which promised its readers "the newest and most commendable Fashion for Dressing or Sowcing, eyther Flesh, Fish, or Fowle. Together with making of all sorts of Iellyes, and other made-Dishes for seruice; both to beautifie and adorne eyther Nobleman or Gentlemans Table. Hereunto also is added the most exquisite London Cookerie. All set forth according to the now, new, English and French fashion."
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