Culinary texts

This is a partial listing of significant culinary texts, from
 

c. 1700 BC

Babylonian cuneiform recipe collection

Anonymous author(s)

c. 400 BC

Sicilian cookery book

Mithaecus

c. 330 BC

The Life of Luxury

Archestratus

2nd century BC

De Agri Cultura

Cato

c. 200

Deipnosophists

Athenaeus

4th century

De Re Coquinaria

Apicius

6th century

De Observatione Ciborum

Anthimus

13th century

Kitâb al-Tabîkh (the Book of Dishes)

al-Baghdadi

c. 1390

The Forme of Curry

Master Cooks of King Richard

End 13th/ Beginning 14th century

Liber de Coquina

Anonymous author in Naples

14th century

Viandier

Taillevent

15th century

De Honesta Voluptate

Platina

Early 16th century

Karnama dar bab-i tabbakhi va san’at an

Bavarchi

1570

Opera Omnia

Scappi

1581

Ein neues Kochbuch

Marx Rompolt

1660

The Accomplish’t Cook

Robert May

1723

The Cook's and confectioner's 
Dictionary; or, the Accomplished
Housewife's Companion

John Nott

1745

Nuevo Arte de Cocina

Juan Altamiras

1747

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy

Hannah Glasse

1796

American Cookery

Amelia Simmons

1824

The Virginia Housewife

Mary Randolph

1825

La Physiologie du gout

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1845

Modern Cookery in all its Branches

Eliza Acton

1844

Praktisches Kochbuch

Henriette Davidis

1859

Book of Household Management

Isabella Beeton

1881

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

Abby Fisher

1931

The Joy of Cooking

Irma Rombauer

1932

La Cucina Futurista

Filippo Tomasso Marinetti

1961

Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, Julia Child

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