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Adam's Luxury and Eve's Cookery
- Year
- 1744
- Era
- 18th century
- Origin
- England · Europe
- Language
- English
- Category
- Dairy/Brewing/Garden
Adam's Luxury and Eve's Cookery, published anonymously in London in 1744, pairs a kitchen-garden manual with a domestic receipt collection, uniting horticulture and cookery within a single volume. Its dual structure reflects the mid-Georgian ideal of the self-sufficient household, where the produce of the garden flowed directly to the still-room and table, and offers valuable evidence of vegetable cultivation, preserving, pickling and plain English cookery of the period.
Cooking from this book
Artichoke Pie
Signature dishA celebrated emblem of this curious 1744 volume, the artichoke pie captures the book's distinctive marriage of kitchen garden and cookery. Artichokes were a fashionable luxury in Georgian England, prized as much for their ornamental beauty in the plot as for their delicate hearts at table. Baking them within a rich crust transformed a prized garden harvest into a centrepiece dish, perfectly reflecting the volume's Edenic conceit of cultivation leading directly to refined domestic pleasure.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
