Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Author: Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien, 1975- author.

ImprintChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Description281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Introduction: recipes, households, and everyday knowledge -- Making recipe books in early modern England: material practices and the social production of knowledge -- Managing health and household from afar -- Collecting recipes step-by-step -- Recipe trials in the early modern household -- Writing the family archive: recipes and the paperwork of kinship -- Recipes for sale: intersections between manuscript and print cultures -- Conclusion: recipes beyond the household.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-271) and index.

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