Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550–1800 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719087279 ISBN 13: 9780719087271

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The book will be of interest to students and academic in Literature, cultural studies, material culture and the history of medicine

About this title

About the Authors

Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Roehampton, London

Michelle DiMeo is S. Gordon Castigliano Director of Digital Library Initiatives in the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

From the Back Cover

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 disciplinary and interdisciplinary 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, 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; and illuminate their importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern scholars and graduate students alike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719087279
• ISBN 13: 9780719087271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: DiMeo Michelle, Pennell Sara