Végétarien

1908 · réf. 20227 — 1908. Sharpe M. R. L. Golden Rule Cookbook is a 1908 vegetarian cookbook documenting the connection between meatless domestic practice animal welfare and ethical reform in early twentieth-century Britain. The book presents vegetarian cooking not only as household management but as moral obligation reinforced by its cover motto "Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you even though they be four footed and dumb." Its recipes and prefatory language support research into vegetarian foodways animal rights sentiment women's domestic authorship religiously inflected reform and the cultural history of ethical consumption. Sharpe M. R. L. Golden Rule Cookbook: 600 Recipes for Meatless Dishes. London: Cambridge University Press 1908. First edition. Original blue cloth boards white cover title decorative cover quotation; recipe book containing 600 meatless dishes. The volume opens with biblical language on green herbs as food and includes a dedication to Sharpe's sister Margaret More described as "the first vegetarian I ever knew." Sharpe also quotes More's statement "The world needs not so much to be taught as reminded" before adding "May this book remind many of the love they owe to every living creature." Recipes include vegetable legume and herb-based dishes meat substitutes and holiday menus with examples such as "Lima Beans Hollandaise" "Corn Creole" "Italian Croquettes" "German Spinach with Rhubarb" "Parisian Potatoes" and a Thanksgiving menu including "Cream of Artichokes" "Asparagus in Dutch Butter" pies mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. The cookbook belongs to a reform-minded vegetarian print culture that joined diet compassion economy health and domestic instruction in practical recipe form. Minor foxing to front and end pages; sunning to spine; wear to cover quotation; recipe pages clean and crisp. Overall very good. A substantial Edwardian vegetarian cookbook preserving the moral vocabulary and practical cuisine of early animal-welfare food reform. unknown