Seventeenth-century English recipe books : cooking, physic, and chirurgery in the works of W.M. and Queen Henrietta Maria, and of Mary Tillinghast /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008. |
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| Description: | 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early modern Englishwoman. Series III, Essential works for the study of early modern women, Part 3 ; v. 4 Early modern Englishwoman. Series III, Essential works for the study of early modern women, Part 3 ; v. 4. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12679595 |
| Summary: | Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen. In a world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women's responsibilities, women were central to these texts that record what was both a traditional art and new science. The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and intellectual practices of the period. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780754651956 0754651959 9780754651963 0754651967 |