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A. IntroductionThe 18th century was a transition period in the history of German cooking and this is reflected in the history of its terminology. The French cuisine is first attested as a loanword in English to denote a particular style or art of cooking in 1786, and in German too, Kochkunst (‘cookery’; literally ‘art of cooking’) first appeared in the second half of the century (it does not yet appear, for instance, in Zedler’s  Universal-Lexicon). There is dispute over whether the shift observable after the late Baroque period, away from the early modern practice of intensi…