Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Talbot Grey and Aletheia Talbot Howard
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domestic medicine history
early modern pharmacology
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food preservation techniques
gendered knowledge transmission
manuscript transcription methods
material culture studies
women's medical authorship research
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- ISBN 9780754651963
- Weight: 1550g
- Dimensions: 123 x 186mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen. In a world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women's responsibilities, women were central to these texts that record what was both a traditional art and new science. The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and intellectual practices of the period.
Elizabeth Spiller, is based in the Department of English, at Florida State University, USA.
