Editing Cookbook (section)

== Collections and collectors ==

Several libraries have extensive collections of cookbooks.

* Harvard's [[Schlesinger Library|Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America]] has a collection of 20,000 cookbooks and other books on food, including the earliest American cookbook, and the personal collections and papers of [[Julia Child]], [[M.F.K. Fisher]], and the authors of ''[[The Joy of Cooking]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections |title=Collections |access-date=2014-10-31 |archive-date=2014-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026111142/http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Heather Atwood, "Harvard's Cookbooks Speak of Our History", ''Gloucester Times'', August 8, 2012 [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/in-news/harvards-cookbooks-speak-our-history full text] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031205533/https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/in-news/harvards-cookbooks-speak-our-history |date=2014-10-31 }}</ref>
* New York University's [[Fales Library]] includes a Food and Cookery Collection of over 15,000 books, including the personal libraries of [[James Beard]], [[Cecily Brownstone]], and [[Dalia Carmel]].<ref>[http://library.nyu.edu/collections/policies/fales_food.html "Fales Library Food and Cookery Collection Development Policy"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101031516/http://library.nyu.edu/collections/policies/fales_food.html |date=2014-11-01 }}</ref>
* The [[Brotherton Library]] at [[University of Leeds]] holds a [[Designation Scheme|Designated]] [[Leeds University Library's Cookery Collection|Cookery Collection]] of over 8,000 books and 75 manuscripts, including the personal collections of Blanche Leigh, John Preston and Michael Bateman.<ref name="Cookery Collections Guide">{{cite web|title=Cookery Collections Guide|url=https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-cookery-collection|website=Special Collections|publisher=Leeds University Library|access-date=19 April 2017|archive-date=20 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420045851/https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-cookery-collection|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The English Cookery Book">{{cite book|last1=White|first1=Eileen|title=The English Cookery Book: Historical Essays|date=2004|publisher=Prospect Books|isbn=1-90301836-6|pages=6–27|url=http://prospectbooks.co.uk/img/EnglishCookeryBook.pdf|access-date=19 April 2017|archive-date=20 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143518/http://prospectbooks.co.uk/img/EnglishCookeryBook.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Some individuals are notable for their collections of cookbooks, or their scholarly interest therein. [[Elizabeth Robins Pennell]], an American critic in London from the 1880s, was an early writer on the subject, and has recently been called "one of the most well-known cookbook collectors in the world".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/200908/pennell-1.phtml |title="A Greedy Woman:The Long, Delicious Shelf Life of Elizabeth Robins Pennell". Cynthia D. Bertelsen. August 2009. ''Fine Books Magazine''. |access-date=2018-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173549/https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/200908/pennell-1.phtml |archive-date=2018-04-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Much of her collection eventually went to the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the [[Library of Congress]]. Held alongside hers are the thousands of gastronomic volumes donated by food chemist [[Katherine Bitting]]; their collections were evaluated in tandem in ''Two Loaf-Givers'', by one of the LOC's curators;<ref>''Two Loaf-Givers: Or a Tour through the Gastronomic Libraries of Katherine Golden Bitting and Elizabeth Robins Pennell''. by Leonard N. Beck {{ISBN|0-8444-0404-7}} (0-8444-0404-7)</ref> a digital version is available.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/General.13107|title=From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division|work=loc.gov|access-date=2018-04-02|archive-date=2021-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329042641/https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2010gen13107/|url-status=live}}</ref>