British maker of scientific instruments and food writer
| Born | 1775? |
| Died | 1827 |
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![Cover of: The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion: containing precepts for promoting the pleasures, and hints for preserving the health of travellers. Pt. I. Comprising estimates of the expenses of travelling ... with seven songs ... composed by W.K. [Pt. II. Comprising the Horse and carriage keeper's oracle ... By John Jervis ... The whole rev. by W.K.]](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13441529-M.jpg "Cover of: The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion: containing precepts for promoting the pleasures, and hints for preserving the health of travellers. Pt. I. Comprising estimates of the expenses of travelling ... with seven songs ... composed by W.K. [Pt. II. Comprising the Horse and carriage keeper's oracle ... By John Jervis ... The whole rev. by W.K.]")
![Cover of: Apicius redivivus: The cook's oracle: containing practical receipts for roasting, boiling, frying ... &c., &c. On the most economical plan for private families; also, the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, and flavoring essences: the quantity of each article being accurately stated by weight or measure ... The result of actual experiments made in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure ... [etc.]](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7975514-M.jpg "Cover of: Apicius redivivus: The cook's oracle: containing practical receipts for roasting, boiling, frying ... &c., &c. On the most economical plan for private families; also, the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, and flavoring essences: the quantity of each article being accurately stated by weight or measure ... The result of actual experiments made in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure ... [etc.]")
![Cover of: Apicius redivivus; or The cook's oracle: wherein especially the art of composing soups, sauces, and flavouring essences is made so clear and easy, by the quantity of each article being accurately stated by weight and measure, that every one may soon learn to dress a dinner, as well as the most experienced cook; being six hundred receipts, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure ... [etc.]](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7920845-M.jpg "Cover of: Apicius redivivus; or The cook's oracle: wherein especially the art of composing soups, sauces, and flavouring essences is made so clear and easy, by the quantity of each article being accurately stated by weight and measure, that every one may soon learn to dress a dinner, as well as the most experienced cook; being six hundred receipts, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure ... [etc.]")
British maker of scientific instruments and food writer
| Born | 1775? |
| Died | 1827 |
Subjects
Hygiene, Cooking, Diet, Digestion, English Cooking, Telescopes, Wills, Health, Longevity, Eyeglasses, Cab and omnibus service, Home economics, Horses, Travel, Carving (Meat, etc.), Cookery, English Cookery, Housekeeping, Librettos, Operas, Vision, Apartment houses, Bookkeeping, Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano, Coaching (Transportation)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL2016037A
- ISNI: 0000000062995286
- Library of Congress Names: n82207970
- Project Gutenberg: 33482
- VIAF: 74632395
- Wikidata: Q8014067
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q8014067
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| September 30, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | add ISNI |
| March 31, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | add VIAF and wikidata ID |
| June 7, 2012 | Edited by VacuumBot | Removed period from death date |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |