three reviews of kenney herberts culinary jottings.
prospect books, you wouldn't guess from their name, publish books on food and cooking. the books subjects range over cooking of national and regional types, vegetable and fruit gardening, animal husbandry and even one on how to build and use an outdoor wood fired oven. all of these they categorize under cookbooks, food history and ethnology of food.
prospect is an outgrowth of the journal "petit propos culinaire" which continues to be published three times a year and has a separate section on the site for its promotion.
prospects catalog has a short description of the contents of each book and some of these are followed by one or more reviews of their edition, collected from other sources. something they do a lot of, publish a book collect the best reviews of it and post them on their blog, no running around the internet unless you want to read the reviews they excluded.
i found their website browsing google for a downloadable e-text of kenney herbert's culinary jottings cleaner than the four the invaluable internet archive.org makes available. prospects reprints and first editions of books are not available so far as i read as downloadable e-books.
besides the journal and books they also manage what they term the old culinary text project. one of the founders of the journal made a photocopy collection of as many old cook books he could find, and the inheritors of his estate now have what seems to be a lending library of some or all of the photocopies on a rental basis.
lastly the web site also has a food and cooking glossary made from the glossaries of a number of other cook books prospect has published or gotten permission to use for their online glossary. alink to the glossary can be found in the side bar under glossary--food--prospect.
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