Henry Smith's 1900's ""The Master Book of Soups"" provides 1,001 different soup recipes from all around the world, allowing the home cook to create simple, inexpensive and satisfying meals.

From the restorative powers of chicken soup on a sick day to the warmth of a bowl of chowder on a wintry night, there is no food quite as comforting and emblematic of home as soup. Soup, as Janet Clarkson tells us, is the first true culinary creation of humanity,

British food has not traditionally been regarded as one of the world's great cuisines, and yet Stilton cheese, Scottish raspberries, Goosnargh duck and Welsh lamb are internationally renowned and celebrated. And then there are all those dishes and recipes that inspire passionate loyalty among the initiated: Whitby lemon buns and

Books about English Language Cookbooks, 1600-1973

DIVOutstanding recipes for chilled borscht and vichyssoise, sour cream dill soup, stocks, consommes, cream soups, bisques, chowders and more. /div