Part two : the text and its form
The origin and early development of modern cookbooks
Printed cookbooks : diffusion, translation, and plagiarism
Pedagogical and didactic approaches
Part three : the text and its world
Cookbooks for the rich and the poor
Health and medicine in cookbooks
Recipes for fat days and lean days
Cookbooks and aspects of nationalism
Decoration, illusion, and entertainment
Gender in cookbooks and household books
Epilogue: cookbooks and the future.
