Learning to cook in early modern England. Part I
By Sara Pennell Where do recipes fit into historical understanding of pedagogical processes around food? Various scholars (including myself) have speculated about the compilation of manuscript recipe...
View ArticleRecipe [book] studies: an editor’s postscript
By Sara Pennell As some of you may already be aware, I and another contributor to this blog, Michelle DiMeo, have finally seen the publication of the volume Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550-1800...
View ArticleRecipes in space (domestically speaking…)
By Sara Pennell What spaces do recipes occupy? They occupy a distinctive place on the page and might take up a few inches of shelf-space, when bound together. But these textual traces are only the...
View ArticleHistory of Food and Medicine
This just in from contributors Rachel Rich and Sara Pennell… Check out their virtual issue of Social History of Medicine on ‘Food the Forgotten Medicine’. What is a virtual issue? Well, as guest...
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