Canadian Cookbooks (1825–1949)

In the Heart of the Home

Authors

  • Elizabeth Driver Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30229

Keywords:

Canada, cookbook history, 19th Century, early 20th-century, bibliographic history, publishing history, research methods, institutionalization, social history

Abstract

This piece was given as one of the Savoir Faire lecture series at the National Library of Canada, Ottawa in January 2002. Very slight changes have been made as adjustment from the spoken to the written word. The article concerns how the author set about researching and compiling a major bibliographic reference tool documenting Canadian cookbooks dating from between 1825 and 1949. 

Author Biography

  • Elizabeth Driver, Independent Scholar

    Elizabeth Driver is author of A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875–1914 (1989), and Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825–1949 (forthcoming). She has also been working on facsimiles in the Classic Canadian Cookbooks Series. As Program Officer Foodways at Montgomery’s Inn, a nineteenth-century historic site in Toronto, she often cooks over the open hearth.

Published

2003-03-31

Issue

PPC 72 (2003)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Driver, Elizabeth. 2003. “Canadian Cookbooks (1825–1949): In the Heart of the Home”. Petits Propos Culinaires, March, 19-39. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30229.