
COOK (ANN) Professed Cookery, Newcastle, 1755
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COOK (ANN)
Footnotes
Ann Cook was Hannah Glasse's great rival, the introduction to her Professed Cookery comprising a 68-page unrelenting attack on Glasse and The Art of Cookery. The second part of the book, 'A Plan of House‐Keeping', gives an account of Cook's alleged campaign of intimidation at the hands of Glasse's half-brother Lancelot Allgood. Included in the lot is a copy of a pamphlet by Madeleine Hope Dodds entitled The rival cooks: Hannah Glasse and Ann Cook (1938, inscribed by the author and with a letter from her inserted).
Provenance: "Ann Ornsby, her Book the 26 Day of May 1765 at Lanchester", inscription with another dated 1772 on front free endpaper.
Saleroom notices
Please note that this lacks pp.285-292 towards the end.