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Reading and writing recipe books, 1550-1800 /

This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first book to collect together the wide v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pennell, Sara (Editor ), DiMeo, Michelle (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sara Pennell and Michele DiMeo
  • Authorship and medical networks : reading attributions in early modern recipe books / Michelle DiMeo
  • 'A practical art' : an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books / Annie Gray
  • Genre conventions in English recipes, 1600-1800 / Francisco Alonso-Almeida
  • Reading recipe books and culinary history : opening a new field / Gilly Lehmann
  • The 'Quintessence of Wit' : poems and recipes in early modern women's writing / Jayne Elisabeth Archer
  • The Foote sisters' Compleat Housewife : cookery texts as a source in the lived religion / Lauren F. Winner
  • Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley / Margaret J.M. Ezell
  • Crossing the boundaries : domestic collections in early modern Wales / Alun Withey
  • 'Lett her refrain from all hott spices' : medicinal recipes and advice in the treatment of the King's Evil in seventeenth-century south-west England / Anne Stobart
  • Making living, lives and archives : tales of four eighteenth-century recipes books / Sara Pennell.