Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Popular--History--17th century.

Medicine, Popular.

Formulas, recipes, etc--England--History--17th century.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Note-taking.

History.

Home economics.

England.

Home economics--England--History--17th century.

Note-taking--History--17th century.

Medicine, Traditional--history.

History, 17th Century.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine, Traditional--history.

History, 17th Century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming "treasuries for health," each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elain Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or "household science." By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science" -- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: recipes, households, and everyday knowledge

Making recipe books in early modern England: material practices and the social production of knowledge

Managing health and household from afar

Collecting recipes step-by-step

Recipe trials in the early modern household

Writing the family archive: recipes and the paperwork of kinship

Recipes for sale: intersections between manuscript and print cultures

Conclusion: recipes beyond the household.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780226583495

022658349X

9780226583662

022658366X

OCLC:

1027769387