| Kitchen Utensils: Names, Origins, and Definitions Through the Ages | 
 enlarge | Author: Phillips V. Brooks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 926583
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1403966192
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.3
EAN: 9781403966193
ASIN: 1403966192
Publication Date: November 4, 2004
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Product Description
A fabulous book for all "foodies," this small and unusual gift book offers the histories of 375 American utensils. Presented by categories--serving dishes, fireplace tools, lighting, cooking utensils, cutlery, drinking vessels, and measures--each listing includes a concise narrative of the utensils' origins, migrations to America, names, spellings, and uses from the early middle ages to the late 19th century. Filled with illustrations and amusing vignettes, Kitchen Utensils is a must-have for every food-history lover's bookshelf.
Book Description
A one-of-a-kind gift book for all "foodies," this unusual book offers the histories of 375 American utensils. Presented by category--serving dishes, fireplace tools, lighting, cooking utensils, cutlery, drinking vessels, and measures--each listing includes a concise narrative of the utensil's origins, migrations to America, names, spellings, and uses from the early middle ages to the late nineteenth century. Filled with illustrations and amusing vignettes, Kitchen Utensils is a must-have for every food-history lover's bookshelf.
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 A compendium of kitchen utensils January 20, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...but you probably guessed that from the title. The lists are organized by type (serving dishes, drinking vessels, cutlery) and each term has a definition, documented variant spellings with sources, and the earliest known citation. Some pictures, too. So you can find out such vital information, for example, that a "pottle" dates to 1300 and is a liquid measure equal to two quarts, and was variously spelled potel, potell, potelle, pottel, and pottell. Useful for those who do not have access to the Oxford English Dictionary.
 What history? January 28, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Little more than a dictionary, and a limited one at that. The few, random, black and white photos and drawings are tiny and gratuitous. The definitions are very short. A short, technical essay introduces this sparsely illustrated offering. I suppose this is good if you are a scholar and you forgot quite what that thingamajig was, but anyone looking for an interesting or informative book will be disappointed.
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