Reading and writing recipe books, 1550-1800 /
DiMeo, Michelle,editor of compilation.
Pennell, Sara,editor of compilation.
Almeida, Francisco Alonso.
Papers from a conference, 6-8 Aug. 2008, University of Warwick.
Introduction / Sara Pennell and Michele DiMeo -- Authorship and medical networks : reading attributions in early modern recipe books / Michelle DiMeo -- 'A practical art' : an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books / Annie Gray -- Genre conventions in English recipes, 1600-1800 / Francisco Alonso-Almeida -- Reading recipe books and culinary history : opening a new field / Gilly Lehmann -- The 'Quintessence of Wit' : poems and recipes in early modern women's writing / Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- The Foote sisters' Compleat Housewife : cookery texts as a source in the lived religion / Lauren F. Winner -- Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- Crossing the boundaries : domestic collections in early modern Wales / Alun Withey -- 'Lett her refrain from all hott spices' : medicinal recipes and advice in the treatment of the King's Evil in seventeenth-century south-west England / Anne Stobart -- Making living, lives and archives : tales of four eighteenth-century recipes books / Sara Pennell
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
Food writing.
Food writers.
Cookbooks.