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