As per ginko, this is post Columbian Exchange. However there are older cookbooks, e.g. from 1390[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forme_of_Cury.

Perhaps, but this article is celebrating an ancient cookbook from Korea and not England.

Not only that but: "Some historians even believe it could be the first cookbook written by a woman in all of East Asia."

I am not familiar with the sexual politics/subtleties surrounding food, let alone writing about it, in East Asia. I suspect, given what I know from these parts (England), that women in East Asia had few opportunities to express themselves in any form, let alone a book that comes down through the centuries to today.

I suggest that Jang Gye-hyang did remarkably well and ought to be thought of as one of the fore-founders of a part of modern food. Here in the UK we have Mrs Beeton as a similar example (albeit rather later.)

    I suspect, given what I know from these parts (England), that women in East Asia had few opportunities to express themselves in any form, let alone a book that comes down through the centuries to today.

Although for Korea, you need to understand that women had much better treatment in the Goryeo Dynasty than in the Joseon Dynasty (which came after it, and is perhaps the most well-known because of its proximity to modern Korea and the cultural effects it has on today). Women had equal inheritance rights with men, and brothers/sisters had almost equal status within families. It is the Confucian ideals that came with the leaders of the Joseon dynasty that kinda ruined all this. This will probably blow your mind: women had more inheritance rights in the 10th century than in 1990 (until, the laws were amended in 1991)

While what you say about opportunities may be true, The Tale of Genji was written by a Japanese woman. It's often considered the first novel.

I consider that a non-sequiter. I'm not trying to be rude but you have taken my comment, said nowt about it and then produced a The Tale of Genji which is nothing to do with food or the region we are discussing.

A cook book is on show here and not a novel.

You might like to investigate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf which is a poem written about the same time as The Tale of Genji. It isn't a novel as such. It's an epic in poetic form which is basically a long story with a lot of baggage!

Beowulf, I feel, helps to tie England to its roots and there are a lot of roots. A lot of roots, not to mention a tangled thicket above ground!

I was responding to this:

> that women in East Asia had few opportunities to express themselves in any form, let alone a book

By pointing out that another woman in East Asia expressed herself in a book, which was passed down the centuries.

I'm familiar with Beowulf; English is my native language. Talk about non-sequiturs!

I was replying to lehi’s comment about food pre-Columbian exchange. I’m not disparaging the author of this cookbook.

This cookbook is from around 1670, almost 200 years after the discovery of the New World.