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Cooking History

The Liebig Company's Practical Cookery Book

Compiled by Hannah M. Young, 1894

by (author) Hannah M. Young

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781870962162
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $25.95

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First published in 1894. Baron Justus von Liegig was one of the greatest organic chemists of the nineteenth century. His discovery of the nutritional properties of beef extract had already been in use for invalids when he and four others decided to go into Production in Uruguay, using the flesh of cattle that had been killed for their hides alone. He founded his factory at Villa Independencia, later to be called Fray Bentos, and his purpose was very largely philanthropic--to provide in pre-digested form a cheap and nutritious food which could enhance the lives of the growing populations of the world's poor. His beef extract later became Oxo. This work is a charming promotional book for the Liebig Co.'s Extract of Beef, complete with period advertisements. Brief introduction by Ann Bagnall.

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