Screen LibraryIn the kitchen, 1550-1800 : reading English cooking at home and abroad /
"In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts of cooking and medicine, early modern kitchens concentrated on producing, processing, and preser...
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Amsterdam University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Food culture, food history before 1900
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| Summary: |
"In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts of cooking and medicine, early modern kitchens concentrated on producing, processing, and preserving materials necessary for nourishment and survival; yet they also fed social and economic networks and nurtured a sense of physical, spiritual, and political connection to surrounding lands and their cultures. The essays in this volume illuminate this expansive view of cooking and aspire to show how the kitchen's inner workings prove tightly, though often invisibly, interwoven with local, national, and, increasingly, global surroundings. Engaging with literary and historical methodologies, including close reading, recipe analysis, and perspectives on gender, class, race, and colonialism, we begin to develop a shared theoretical and practical language for the art of cooking that combines the physical with the intellectual, the local with the global, and the domestic with the political."-- |
| Carrier Form: | 294 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789463721646 9463721649 |
| Index Number: | TX705 |
| CLC: |
TS971.2(561)-09 TS972.185.61-09 |
| Call Number: | TS972.185.61-09/I356 |
| Contents: |
Sympoeisis and early modern cooking: troubling the boundaries of human/non-human / Between earth and sky: the cook as environmental mediator in Paradise Lost / Instinct and the body of the early modern cook / Early modern leaven in bread, bodies, and spirit / Cake: an early modern chronicle of trade, technology, and exchange / Amy L. Tigner -- The power of the pot: naturalizing carp through the early modern English receipt book / How to make a bisk: the restoration cookbook as national restorative / 'A little winter savory, a little time': making history in Elizabeth Cromwell's kitchen / A culinary embassy: diplomatic home making in Lady Ann Fanshawe's Booke of Receipts / Minding the fires: human-fire coagency in Margaret Cavendish's Matrimonial Trouble and seventeenth-century recipes / 'Teâgun kuttiemaûnch: what food shall I prepare for you?': exchanges in early New England kitchens / 'A new source of happiness to man'?: maple sugaring and settler colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world / |