Cookbooking

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

An eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicals, graphics, and snappy writing. Subjects include: a visual history of cookbook design; what’s the matter with front matter?; the diet cookbooks we’ve starved for; the proliferation of French cookbooks, hippie cookbooks, TV-show cookbooks. And so, so, so, so, so much more. In short, Cookbooking is a celebration of the genre and an exploration of what makes book