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Cagle, William Rea was born on November 15, 1933 in Hollywood, California, United States. Son of Howard Clinton and Eunice (Colcord Althouse) Cagle.
(This major bibliography describes the American cookbooks ...)
This major bibliography describes the American cookbooks in the Gernon Collection housed at the Lilly Library. Among the cookbooks listed is the first edition of Amelia Simmons' "American Cookery" (1796), a second edition of Mary Randolph's "The Virginia Housewife" (1825), Robert Roberts' "The House Servant's Directory" (1827), the first book by an African-American to be commercially published; and Eliza Leslie's "Seventy-five Recipes for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats" (1828) among many others. Many 19th century popular works are represented in multiple editions, providing bibliographers and culinary historians with publishing histories of these books.
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Revised from the first edition, which was published in 1990 in only 150 copies. This revised edition includes numerous new illustrations. This work is an expanded and revised bibliography of the British and Continental component of the Lilly Library's Gernon Collection of Books on Food and Drink, located at Indiana University. A MATTER OF TASTE is the companion volume to AMERICAN BOOKS ON FOOD AND DRINK. This volume also includes culinary works of Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. This work is a must have for all gastronomic and culinary historians and collectors as it contains full bibliographical information in addition to annotations and notes. A MATTER OF TASTE also features more than 200 line engravings of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century dinner scenes, title pages, and frontispieces from important culinary works. 1205 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. tall 8vo..
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Cagle, William Rea was born on November 15, 1933 in Hollywood, California, United States. Son of Howard Clinton and Eunice (Colcord Althouse) Cagle.
Bachelor of Arts in English, University of California at Los Angeles, 1956; Master of Library Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1962; postgraduate, University of Oxford, 1959-1960.
Assistant to librarian, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, 1960-1962; librarian for English, Indiana U. Libraries, Bloomington, 1962-1967; assistant Lilly librarian, Indiana U. Libraries, Bloomington, 1967-1975; acting Lilly librarian, Indiana U. Libraries, Bloomington, 1975-1977. Lilly librarian, Indiana U. Libraries, Bloomington, 1977-1997. Director's academic advising committee Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University Texas.
(This major bibliography describes the American cookbooks ...)
(Revised from the first edition, which was published in 19...)
(Illustrated exhibition catalogue. vi , 138 pages. stiff p...)
Trustee Carver Memorial Library., Searsport, Maine. Member collection advisory board Kinsey Institute Sex, Gender and Reproduction With United States Army, 1956-1959. Member Benjamin Franklin Guild (Board of Governors), Association Internationale de Biliophilie, Lincoln Society.
Married Terry Lucinda Conrad, January 17, 1975. Children by previous marriage: Michael Stewart, Chantal Gabrielle, Mark Christopher, Monique Antoinette.