Reading and Writing Recipe Books CB

by Sara Pennell

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719087279
• ISBN13: 9780719087271
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 8.6"