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The language of cooking: from ‘Forme of Cury’ to ‘Pukka Tucker’

The earliest surviving English-language recipes came from the kitchens of kings and their great nobles. Richard II’s Master Cooks boasted that their Forme of Cury contained only the ‘best and royallest viand of all Christian Kings’, and, what’s more, had been approved by the king’s physicians and philosophers. Healthy eating issues and celebrity endorsements are [...]

Posted on: August 30 2012 | Posted by: Claire Etty | Comments: 2 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, English in use, Word origins | Tags: cookery, English in use, etymology, food and drink, idioms, lexicography, Middle English, OED, Oxford English Corpus, phrases, quotations, word origins