Cookbook - Quiz
Cookbook
  • 1. Which university's library holds the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America?
A) Princeton
B) Columbia
C) Yale
D) Harvard
  • 2. How many cookbooks and other books on food are in Harvard's Schlesinger Library collection?
A) 8,000
B) 20,000
C) 10,000
D) 15,000
  • 3. Whose personal collections and papers are held at Harvard's Schlesinger Library?
A) James Beard, Cecily Brownstone, and Dalia Carmel
B) Katherine Bitting and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
C) Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, and the authors of The Joy of Cooking
D) Blanche Leigh, John Preston, and Michael Bateman
  • 4. What does Harvard's Schlesinger Library collection include regarding American cookbooks?
A) The rarest manuscript in the world
B) The first European cookbook
C) The oldest printed recipe card
D) The earliest American cookbook
  • 5. Which university houses the Fales Library?
A) New York University
B) University of Leeds
C) Harvard University
D) Stanford University
  • 6. How many books are in the Fales Library's Food and Cookery Collection at New York University?
A) Over 20,000
B) Over 8,000
C) Over 15,000
D) Over 50,000
  • 7. Whose personal libraries are included in New York University's Fales Library collection?
A) John Preston, Michael Bateman, and Dalia Carmel
B) Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Katherine Bitting
C) James Beard, Cecily Brownstone, and Dalia Carmel
D) Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, and Blanche Leigh
  • 8. Which university holds the Designated Cookery Collection?
A) University of Leeds
B) Columbia University
C) Harvard University
D) New York University
  • 9. What is the name of the library at the University of Leeds that holds the cookery collection?
A) Schlesinger Library
B) Library of Congress
C) Fales Library
D) Brotherton Library
  • 10. How many books and manuscripts are in the Brotherton Library's Designated Cookery Collection?
A) Over 20,000 books and 50 manuscripts
B) Over 5,000 books and 25 manuscripts
C) Over 15,000 books and 100 manuscripts
D) Over 8,000 books and 75 manuscripts
  • 11. Whose personal collections are held in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds?
A) Blanche Leigh, John Preston, and Michael Bateman
B) Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Katherine Bitting
C) James Beard, Cecily Brownstone, and Julia Child
D) M.F.K. Fisher and Dalia Carmel
  • 12. Who was Elizabeth Robins Pennell?
A) A famous television chef from New York
B) A curator at the Library of Congress
C) An American critic in London from the 1880s and early writer on the subject
D) A food chemist who donated gastronomic volumes
  • 13. What has Elizabeth Robins Pennell recently been called?
A) One of the most well-known cookbook collectors in the world
B) The greatest food chemist in history
C) The founder of the Schlesinger Library
D) The author of the earliest American cookbook
  • 14. Where did much of Elizabeth Robins Pennell's collection eventually go?
A) Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
B) Harvard's Schlesinger Library
C) Brotherton Library at University of Leeds
D) New York University's Fales Library
  • 15. Who donated the thousands of gastronomic volumes held alongside Elizabeth Robins Pennell's collection at the LOC?
A) Blanche Leigh
B) Cecily Brownstone
C) Katherine Bitting
D) M.F.K. Fisher
  • 16. What was Katherine Bitting's profession?
A) American critic
B) Cookbook author
C) University curator
D) Food chemist
  • 17. What is the title of the publication that evaluated the collections of Pennell and Bitting in tandem?
A) The Joy of Cooking
B) Cookbook Collections of the World
C) Two Loaf-Givers
D) The Anarchist Cookbook
  • 18. Who wrote Two Loaf-Givers?
A) Katherine Bitting
B) Elizabeth Robins Pennell
C) Julia Child
D) One of the LOC's curators
  • 19. What format is available for Two Loaf-Givers?
A) Digital version
B) Microfilm only
C) Handwritten manuscript
D) Audiobook
  • 20. How is the term 'cookbook' sometimes used outside the world of food?
A) Metaphorically to refer to any book containing a straightforward set of tried and tested instructions
B) As a legal term for a book of regulations
C) As a literal guide for baking in chemistry laboratories
D) To describe any fictional novel with multiple chapters
  • 21. What is the purpose of the instructions found in a metaphorical cookbook?
A) To confuse readers with complex theoretical formulas
B) To test the advanced skills of top experts in a field
C) To provide historical context for ancient civilizations
D) To allow users who are not necessarily experts to produce workable results
  • 22. Which of the following is given as an example of a metaphorical cookbook?
A) A set of circuit designs in electronics
B) A historical biography
C) A standard calculus textbook
D) A collection of poetry
  • 23. What is another example of a metaphorical cookbook mentioned in the text?
A) A dictionary of foreign languages
B) A map of geographical landmarks
C) A book of magic spells
D) An encyclopedia of science
  • 24. What subject does The Anarchist Cookbook cover, according to the text?
A) Instructions on destruction and living outside the law
B) Gourmet French pastry recipes
C) Circuit designs in electronics
D) Advanced computer programming languages
  • 25. Which publisher produces a series of books about computer programming named the Cookbook series?
A) Springer Verlag
B) Harvard University Press
C) Library of Congress
D) O'Reilly Media
  • 26. What do the books in O'Reilly Media's Cookbook series contain?
A) Theoretical essays on the history of computers
B) Biographies of famous food chemists
C) Hundreds of ready to use, cut and paste examples to solve specific problems
D) Instructions on destruction and living outside the law
  • 27. In how many programming languages are the problems solved within a single book in O'Reilly's Cookbook series?
A) A single programming language
B) Exactly five programming languages
C) Multiple different programming languages simultaneously
D) No programming languages at all
  • 28. Which group of people creates anonymous compilations of recipes?
A) Automotive designers
B) Software developers
C) Corporate board members
D) Regional or historical traditions
  • 29. Who is a target audience for cookbooks seeking everyday guidance?
A) Home cooks
B) Geologists
C) Botanists
D) Astronauts
  • 30. Which of the following is NOT a typical way recipes are systematically organized?
A) By primary ingredient
B) By the author's shoe size
C) By cooking technique
D) By course sequence
  • 31. What cultural aspects might a cookbook explore?
A) Modern corporate structures
B) Historical periods or cultural movements
C) Subatomic particle physics
D) Space exploration milestones
  • 32. Which specific practitioners are listed as cookbook targets?
A) Plumbing technicians
B) Carpentry specialists
C) Bakers or dietary professionals
D) Electrical contractors
  • 33. What are cookbooks that serve as basic kitchen references sometimes known as?
A) Household manuals
B) Master guides
C) Culinary encyclopedias
D) Kitchen bibles
  • 34. Which cookbook serves as a reference of record for France?
A) The Art of Cookery
B) Il cucchiaio d'argento
C) La bonne cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange
D) The Joy of Cooking
  • 35. Which cookbook serves as a reference of record for Italy?
A) Il cucchiaio d'argento
B) A Gift to Young Housewives
C) The Joy of Cooking
D) La bonne cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange
  • 36. What type of foods were integrated and present in cookbooks during the era of industrialization?
A) Convenience foods
B) Organic heirloom crops
C) Wild game and forage
D) Dehydrated space rations
  • 37. Where might people collect traditional recipes in vernacular literature?
A) Government archives
B) Scientific journals
C) Industrial manuals
D) Family cookbooks
  • 38. How many Akkadian tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia survive as early culinary records?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Two
  • 39. Around what year do the Akkadian tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia date to?
A) 1700 BC
B) 2000 BC
C) 1200 BC
D) 1500 BC
  • 40. In what language was De re coquinaria written?
A) English
B) Greek
C) Latin
D) Arabic
  • 41. When was an early version of De re coquinaria first compiled?
A) 5th century
B) 3rd century
C) 1st century
D) 14th century
  • 42. To which Roman gourmet has De re coquinaria often been attributed?
A) Yuan Mei
B) Archestratus
C) Vinidarius
D) Marcus Gavius Apicius
  • 43. In what year was the first print edition of De re coquinaria published?
A) 1796
B) 1742
C) 1459
D) 1483
  • 44. What is the abbreviated epitome of Apicius by Vinidarius called?
A) Yinshan Zhengyao
B) Apici Excerpta a Vinidario
C) Sanga yorok
D) Wushi Zhongkuilu
  • 45. During which era was the pocket Apicius by Vinidarius made?
A) Yuan dynasty
B) Tang dynasty
C) Carolingian era
D) Ming dynasty
  • 46. Who wrote The Compleat Housewife published in North America in 1742?
A) Chang Kyehyang
B) Amelia Simmons
C) Eliza Smith
D) Madame Wu
  • 47. Who wrote the first known American cookbook, American Cookery?
A) Eliza Smith
B) Amelia Simmons
C) Jeon Soon
D) Chang Kyehyang
  • 48. In which city was American Cookery published in 1796?
A) Boston, Massachusetts
B) Hartford, Connecticut
C) New York, New York
D) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 49. What type of cookbooks were printed and used in the Thirteen Colonies until 1796?
A) British
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Dutch
  • 50. From which century is al-Baghdadi's Arabic cookbook?
A) 10th century
B) 13th century
C) 15th century
D) 17th century
  • 51. Which Indian text contains recipes of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisines?
A) Manasollasa
B) Wushi Zhongkuilu
C) Ŭmsik timibang
D) Sanga yorok
  • 52. During which Chinese dynasty are recipe books first known from, though most were lost?
A) Tang dynasty
B) Ming dynasty
C) Qing dynasty
D) Yuan dynasty
  • 53. What is the name of "Madame Wu's" late 13th-century surviving Chinese cookbook?
A) Ŭmsik timibang
B) Sanga yorok
C) Wushi Zhongkuilu
D) Yinshan Zhengyao
  • 54. Who wrote "Yinshan Zhengyao" (Important Principles of Food and Drink)?
A) Madame Wu
B) Hu Sihui
C) Yuan Mei
D) Archestratus
  • 55. In what year is Hu Sihui's "Yinshan Zhengyao" believed to be from?
A) 1459
B) 1792
C) 1330
D) 1670
  • 56. Who published Recipes from the Garden of Contentment in 1792?
A) Chang Kyehyang
B) Jeon Soon
C) Yuan Mei
D) Hu Sihui
  • 57. Who wrote the oldest known Korean cookbook, Sanga yorok?
A) Jeon Soon
B) Eliza Smith
C) Vinidarius
D) Chang Kyehyang
  • 58. What was the profession of Jeon Soon, author of Sanga yorok?
A) Historian
B) Chef
C) Dietitian
D) Physician
  • 59. In what year was Sanga yorok written?
A) 1796
B) 1459
C) 1670
D) 1742
  • 60. What is the title of the Korean cookbook written around 1670 by Chang Kyehyang?
A) Sanga yorok
B) Wushi Zhongkuilu
C) Yinshan Zhengyao
D) Ŭmsik timibang
  • 61. Where was the earliest genuinely medieval recipe found?
A) A Danish manuscript
B) A French household book
C) A German printing press
D) An Italian collection
  • 62. What is the title of the first printed German cookbook from 1485?
A) Llibre de Sent Soví
B) Daz buch von guter spise
C) Le Viandier
D) Kuchenmeysterey
  • 63. Who compiled Le Viandier in the late 14th century?
A) Eliza Acton
B) Carmen Aboy Valldejuli
C) Guillaume Tirel
D) Isabella Beeton
  • 64. In what year was the Medieval French cookbook Du fait de cuisine written?
A) 1350
B) 1324
C) 1475
D) 1420
  • 65. Which Venetian mid-14th century cookbook has its 135 recipes alphabetically arranged?
A) Libro per Cuoco
B) De honesta voluptate et valetudine
C) Llibre de Sent Soví
D) The Forme of Cury
  • 66. Who wrote the popular Puerto Rican cookbook Cocina Criolla?
A) Fannie Farmer
B) Eliza Acton
C) Mary Stuart Smith
D) Carmen Aboy Valldejuli
  • 67. Who published Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management?
A) Isabella Beeton
B) Fannie Farmer
C) Eliza Acton
D) Carmen Aboy Valldejuli
  • 68. When was the Virginia Cookery Book published by Mary Stuart Smith?
A) 1896
B) 1845
C) 1857
D) 1885
  • 69. Who published The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book in 1896?
A) Isabella Beeton
B) Fannie Farmer
C) Mary Stuart Smith
D) Eliza Acton
  • 70. Approximately how many pre-printing recipe books are known to have survived in Europe?
A) About a hundred
B) About a thousand
C) About ten
D) About eighteen hundred
  • 71. In which city was Daz buch von guter spise written around 1350?
A) Paris
B) Würzberg
C) Venice
D) Boston
  • 72. Which of the following is an example of a medieval professional cookbook?
A) American Cookery
B) Taillevent's Viandier
C) The Joy of Cooking
D) Mastering the Art of French Cooking
  • 73. Who gathered recipes on Canadian food culture by visiting people and homes by region?
A) Hannah Glasse
B) Irma Rombauer
C) Julia Child
D) Sondra Gotlieb
  • 74. Where was the cookbook In Memory's Kitchen written?
A) A Parisian culinary school
B) An American community center
C) A London publishing house
D) Theresienstadt concentration camp
  • 75. Who wrote The English Huswife published in 1615?
A) Kenelm Digby
B) Gervase Markham
C) Eliza Smith
D) Thomas Dawson
  • 76. Which book is recognized as the first cookbook in Polish?
A) Arte de Cozinha
B) Compendium ferculorum, albo Zebranie potraw
C) De honesta voluptate et valetudine
D) Ŭmsik timibang
  • 77. Who wrote the Domestic Cook Book published in 1866, noted as the first known cookbook by an African American woman?
A) Elena Molokhovets
B) Malinda Russell
C) Fannie Merritt Farmer
D) Mrs Beeton
  • 78. In what year was The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book published by Fannie Merritt Farmer?
A) 1931
B) 1901
C) 1861
D) 1896
  • 79. Who authored the 1931 cookbook The Joy of Cooking?
A) Deborah Madison
B) Mollie Katzen
C) Alice B. Toklas
D) Irma Rombauer
  • 80. Which cookbook was first published in Soviet Russia in 1939 by the Institute of Nutrition?
A) Le Cuisinier Royal
B) The Joy of Cooking
C) Larousse Gastronomique
D) Книга о вкусной и здоровой пище
  • 81. What is the publication year of the Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen?
A) 1980
B) 1969
C) 1971
D) 1978
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