It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11
