Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England / Elaine Leong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leong, Elaine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Medicine, Popular.

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

Formulas, recipes, etc.

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

Home economics.

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

Note-taking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. 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, Elaine 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 "idian investigations of the natural world or "household science". She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: Recipes, Households, and Everyday Knowledge

Chapter 1. Making Recipe Books in Early Modern England: Material Practices and the Social Production of Knowledge

Chapter 2. Managing Health and Household from Afar

Chapter 3. Collecting Recipes Step- by- Step

Chapter 4. Recipe Trials in the Early Modern Household

Chapter 5. Writing the Family Archive: Recipes and the Paperwork of Kinship

Chapter 6. Recipes for Sale: Intersections between Manuscript and Print Cultures

Conclusion: Recipes Beyond the Household

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226583525

022658352X

OCLC:

1059124995