Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen

by Wendy Wall

Book Overview

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries.

Recipes reveal much more than the history of puddings and pies: they expose the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247582
• ISBN13: 9780812247589
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"