In the Kitchen, 1550-1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad

Madeline Bassnett (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 9463721649 / ISBN 13: 9789463721646

Edité par Amsterdam University Press, 2025

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• Titre: In the Kitchen, 1550-1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad
• Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9463721649
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789463721646
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

Madeline Bassnett is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. She is the author of Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2016). Her current SSHRC-funded project, Resilient Recipes and Climate Change, examines early modern recipes in relation to Little Ice Age weather conditions.

Hillary M. Nunn is Professor of English at The University of Akron. Her research addresses medical knowledge reflected in English seventeenth-century recipe manuscripts. She is a co-founding member of the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective and author of Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Tragedy in the Early Stuart Era (Ashgate, 2005).

Andy Crow is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Boston College. Their book-in-progress, Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Hunger in Early Modern English Literature, explores poetics and food scarcity in seventeenth-century literature. Their recent work has appeared in English Literary History, Shakespeare Quarterly, and SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.

Julie A. Fisher is an educator and historian of early America. Currently at the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the US National Archives, she has previously worked with the Yale Indian Papers Project, the National Park Service, the American Philosophical Society and Bard High School Early College in Washington, DC. She is the co-author of Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country.

David B. Goldstein is Associate Professor of English and coordinator of the Creative Writing programme at York University in Toronto. His first monograph, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England, shared the Shake_x0002_speare's Globe Book Award. He has also co-edited three essay collections on Shakespeare, food, and early modern hospitality.