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