Seventeenth-century English Recipe Books by Elizabeth Spiller

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  • ISBN 10 0754651967
  • ISBN 13 9780754651963
  • Published Sep 05 2008
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 700
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Ashgate Publishing
  • Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited

Publishers Text

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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