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Revolutions In The Kitchen


English cover, reading METROPOLITAN COOK BOOK, of French cookbook, MANUEL DE CUISINE DE LA COMPAGNIE D'ASSURANCE-VIE METROPOLITAN LIFE Source

 

Title page of cookbook, MANUEL DE CUISINE DE LA COMPAGNIE D'ASSURANCE-VIE METROPOLITAN LIFE Source

 

Page 50 of cookbook, MANUEL DE CUISINE DE LA COMPAGNIE D'ASSURANCE-VIE METROPOLITAN LIFE, with recipes for Crème jaune aux oeufs, Pudding au tapioca à la crème and Pouding au sagou Source

 

Page 51 of cookbook, MANUEL DE CUISINE DE LA COMPAGNIE D'ASSURANCE-VIE METROPOLITAN LIFE, with recipes for Pudding au riz, Neige aux pommes, Crème aux oeufs, Blanc-manger aux fruits and Blanc-manger Source

Manuel de cuisine de la compagnie d'assurance-vie Metropolitan Life. [Ottawa]: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1918

Over the years, Metropolitan Life has provided simple cookbooks for beginning cooks. This early version includes advice on nutrition and the daily requirements for healthy living.

Cover of cookbook, THE MAGIC BAKING POWDER COOK BOOK, with an illustration of a woman carrying a plate of biscuits, accompanied by the word PRESTO! Source

 

The Magic Baking Powder Cook Book. Montréal: Standard Brands, [1920]

An advertisement included in the cookbook stressed the superior quality of its featured product: "We take the most painstaking care to assure that the quality of Magic Baking Powder is always maintained at the highest level. Its tremendous popularity is due to the fact that -- 'A Satisfied Customer is our Best Advertisement' -- and more than three out of every four housewives in Canada to-day use Magic Baking Powder exclusively."

Cover of cookbook, RECETTES CANADIENNES DE LAURA SECORD, with six small images featuring various types of food, and a cameo of Laura Secord Source

 

Association canadienne d'économie familiale. Recettes canadiennes de Laura Secord. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966

Billed as the first truly Canadian cookbook, published in both French and English and sponsored, appropriately, by Laura Secord Candy Shops, this attractive and useful book identifies the regions from which each of the wide-ranging recipes originates. "One thing we did prove conclusively: there is a Canadian cuisine, and it is unique in all the world" (p. 9).

Cover of cookbook, FIVE ROSES: A GUIDE TO GOOD COOKING, with a photograph of a bag of Five Roses flour and a bouquet of red roses surrounded by white cooking tools Source

 

Five Roses: A Guide to Good Cooking. Historical notes by Elizabeth Driver. Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 2003

In a recent interview, Elizabeth Driver explained: "I have been handling historical cookbooks as artefacts instead of using them. Now using them I hear the voice of the women behind the words" (London Free Press, June 4, 2003).


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