The Glasgow Cookery Book
Despite Scottish cuisine being something arguably rather unknown, the popularity of the cookery book allowed it to have a significant, if not also overlooked, influence on the development and maintenance of Scottish culinary identity within the country’s borders.
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Culture in a cookery book
story by Claudia Abbott.At a first glance, a cookbook is a rather unremarkable thing with a sole, practical purpose: a collection of recipes, and not much more. Yet, it can in fact be somewhat of a tome that can help uncover much about the cultural and social contexts of the people that created it and used it. This story will do exactly that for the case of the Glasgow Cookery Book.