THE ATHENAEUMThe Accomplisht CookRobert May
Food History
The Accomplisht Cook
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textRobert May was sent to France to train as a boy and spent his working life cooking in great English houses, and he published this in 1660, the year Charles II came home. It is a book of feasts on a grand scale. For Twelfth Night he describes pies that hide live frogs and birds, to jump and fly out when the lids are lifted.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 9 hr 35 min
- Where to find it
- On the Food History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #22790. In the public domain in the United States.