Seventeenth-century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Grey and Alethea Talbot (Early Modern Englishwoman: ... Study of Early Modern Women Series 3, Part 3)

by ElizabethSpiller (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $219.31

  Recipe books 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. This title allows readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century.