Food Culture, Food History before 1900 : 4
[2022]
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- In the Kitchen, 1550-1800 : Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad
- Ist Teil von
- Food Culture, Food History before 1900 : 4
- Ort / Verlag
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- [2022]
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- In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts of cooking and medicine, early modern kitchens concentrated on producing, processing, and preserving materials necessary for nourishment and survival; yet they also fed social and economic networks and nurtured a sense of physical, spiritual, and political connection to surrounding lands and their cultures. The essays in this volume illuminate this expansive view of cooking and aspire to show how the kitchen's inner workings prove tightly, though often invisibly, interwoven with local, national, and, increasingly, global surroundings. Engaging with literary and historical methodologies, including close reading, recipe analysis, and perspectives on gender, class, race, and colonialism, we begin to develop a shared theoretical and practical language for the art of cooking that combines the physical with the intellectual, the local with the global, and the domestic with the political
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9789048552368DOI: 10.1515/9789048552368Titel-ID: 99371823266806441
- Format
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Schlagworte
- Cooking / England / History / 16th century, Cooking / England / History / 17th century, Cooking / England / History / 18th century, Kitchens / England / History / 16th century, Kitchens / England / History / 17th century, Kitchens / England / History / 18th century, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Cultural Studies, Cultural studies: food and society, Early Modern Studies, Food Studies, History, Art History, and Archaeology, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)