This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to s
Scholars of history, musicology, and English, contribute essays on the history of "how-to" books and manuals published in England between 1500 and 1800, based on a conference held in Newnham College,
Sara Pennell traces the emergence of the domestic kitchen as a distinctive space that helped make houses homes from the 17th century through to the middle of the 19th, and explores how the kitchen and
