Reading and writing recipe books, 1550-1800 / edited by Michelle DiMeo and Sara Pennell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiMeo, Michelle, editor.

Pennell, Sara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food writing.

Food writers.

Cookbooks.

Medicine--History--17th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--History--18th century.

Wales.

Authorship--history.

Food--history.

Writing--history.

Cookbooks as Topic.

History, 16th Century.

History, 17th Century.

History, 18th Century.

England.

cookbooks.

Medical Subjects:

Authorship--history.

Food--history.

Writing--history.

Cookbooks as Topic.

History, 16th Century.

History, 17th Century.

History, 18th Century.

England.

Wales.

Genre:

essays.

History

Essays

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Distribution:

New York, NY : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first book to collect together the wide variety of scholarly approaches to pre-modern recipe books written in English, drawing on varying approaches to reveal their culinary, medical, scientific, linguistic, religious and material meanings. Ten scholars from the fields of culinary history, history of medicine and science, divinity, archaeology and material culture, and English literature and linguistics contribute to a vibrant mapping of the aspirations invested in and uses of recipes and recipe books. By exploring areas as various as the knowledge economies of medicine, Anglican feasting and fasting practices, the material culture of the kitchen and table, London publishing and concepts of authorship and the aesthetics of culinary styles, these eleven essays (including a critical introduction to recipe books and their historiography) position recipe texts in the wider culture of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They illuminate their importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern scholars and graduate students alike -- Provided by Publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Sara Pennell and Michele DiMeo

Authorship and medical networks : reading attributions in early modern recipe books / Michelle DiMeo

'A practical art' : an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books / Annie Gray

Genre conventions in English recipes, 1600-1800 / Francisco Alonso-Almeida

Reading recipe books and culinary history : opening a new field / Gilly Lehmann

The 'Quintessence of Wit' : poems and recipes in early modern women's writing / Jayne Elisabeth Archer

The Foote sisters' Compleat Housewife : cookery texts as a source in the lived religion / Lauren F. Winner

Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley / Margaret J.M. Ezell

Crossing the boundaries : domestic collections in early modern Wales / Alun Withey

'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

Making living, lives and archives : tales of four eighteenth-century recipes books / Sara Pennell.

Notes:

Papers from a conference, 6-8 Aug. 2008, University of Warwick.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

ISBN:

9780719087271

0719087279

OCLC:

857637418