The British Housewife : cookery books, cooking and society in eighteenth-century Britain / Gilly Lehmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehmann, Gilly, author.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Cooking.

Cooking in literature.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature and society.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.

Great Britain.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

494, [2] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Totnes : Prospect Books, 2003.

Contents:

Pt. I. Cookery Books and Cookery before 1700. Medieval and Early Todor: from Manuscript to Print. Elizabethan and Jacobean: Expansion and New Developments. The Commonwealth and Restoration: the Rise of Court-Cookery. The Situation in 1700

Pt. II. Cookery Books, Authors and Readers in the Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Authors and Readers, 1700-1730. Authors and Readers, 1730-1760. Authors and Readers, 1760-1800. Conclusion

Pt. III. Culinary Styles in the Eighteenth Century. Introduction. Culinary Styles, 1700-1730. Culinary Styles, 1730-1760. Culinary Styles, 1760-1800. Conclusion

Pt. IV. The Eighteenth Century at Table. Introduction. Meals and Meal-times. The Rules for Dining. Experiencing the Meal. Conclusion. Appendix I. Cookery Book Production

Appendix II. Meal-times

Appendix III. Some Eighteenth-Century Cookery Books in Detail.

Notes:

Typeset and designed by Tom Jaine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-484) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Lehmann, Gilly. British housewife.

ISBN:

1903018048

9781903018040

OCLC:

50614856

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