Description
Book SynopsisThe book will be of interest to students and academic in Literature, cultural studies, material culture and the history of medicine -- .
Trade ReviewRecipe books, as Michelle DiMeo and Sara Pennell's collection of essays show, can be read for their play with generic conventions as an important avenue into women's literacy, and as evidence of communities far beyond the domestic. -- .
Table of ContentsList of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction Sara Pennell and Michelle DiMeo
PART I: Methodologies
2. Authorship and medical networks: reading attributions in early modern manuscript recipe books’ Michelle DiMeo
3. ‘A practical art’: an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books Annie Gray
4. Genre conventions in English recipes, 1600–1800 Francisco Alonso- Almeida
PART II: Textuality and intertextuality
5. Reading recipe books and culinary history: opening a new field Gilly Lehmann
6. The ‘Quintessence of Wit’: poems and recipes in early modern women’s writing Jayne Elisabeth Archer
7. The Foote sisters’ Compleat Housewife: cookery texts as a source in lived religion Lauren F. Winner
PART III: Cultures of circulation and transmission
8. Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley Margaret J. M. Ezell
9. Crossing the boundaries: domestic recipe collections in early modern Wales Alun Withey
10. ‘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
11. Making livings, lives and archives: tales of four eighteenth-century recipe books Sara Pennell
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Index
