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

2016 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812247582 ;ISBN: 9780812247589 ;ISBN: 9780812291957 ;ISBN: 0812291956 ;EISBN: 9780812291957 ;EISBN: 0812291956 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812291957 ;OCLC: 935259473 ;LCCallNum: TX645.W35 2016

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Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen
Author: Wall, Wendy
Subjects: 16th century ; 17th century ; Cooking, English ; Cooking, English-History-16th century ; Cooking, English-History-17th century ; England ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; European ; Food writing ; Food writing-England-History-16th century ; Food writing-England-History-17th century ; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions ; Formulas, recipes, etc ; Formulas, recipes, etc.-England-History-16th century ; Formulas, recipes, etc.-England-History-17th century ; History ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Knowledge, Sociology of-History ; Language & Literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Medicine ; Medicine-Formulae, receipts, prescriptions-History ; Renaissance ; Renaissance-England
Description: 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 Thoughtanalyzes, 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 unexpectedly therapeutic, literate, and experimental culture of the English kitchen. Wendy Wall explores ways that recipe writing-like poetry and artisanal culture-wrestled with the physical and metaphysical puzzles at the center of both traditional humanistic and emerging "scientific" cultures. Drawing on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and others to interpret a reputedly "unlearned" form of literature, she demonstrates that people from across the social spectrum concocted poetic exercises of wit, experimented with unusual and sometimes edible forms of literacy, and tested theories of knowledge as they wrote about healing and baking. Recipe exchange, we discover, invited early modern housewives to contemplate the complex components of being a Renaissance "maker" and thus to reflect on lofty concepts such as figuration, natural philosophy, national identity, status, mortality, memory, epistemology, truth-telling, and matter itself. Kitchen work, recipes tell us, engaged vital creative and intellectual labors.
Related Titles: Material Texts
Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Creation Date: 2015
Format: 328
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 0812247582
ISBN: 9780812247589
ISBN: 9780812291957
ISBN: 0812291956
EISBN: 9780812291957
EISBN: 0812291956
DOI: 10.9783/9780812291957
OCLC: 935259473
LCCallNum: TX645.W35 2016
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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

2016 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812247582 ;ISBN: 9780812247589 ;ISBN: 9780812291957 ;ISBN: 0812291956 ;EISBN: 9780812291957 ;EISBN: 0812291956 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812291957 ;OCLC: 935259473 ;LCCallNum: TX645.W35 2016

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