04680nam 2200865 450 991079781030332120210506203008.00-8122-9195-610.9783/9780812291957(CKB)3710000000519983(EBL)4321857(SSID)ssj0001572457(PQKBManifestationID)16220451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001572457(PQKBWorkID)13562064(PQKB)10444073(OCoLC)927965546(MdBmJHUP)muse46672(DE-B1597)452792(OCoLC)1013957121(OCoLC)952807571(DE-B1597)9780812291957(Au-PeEL)EBL4321857(CaPaEBR)ebr11149345(CaONFJC)MIL848054(OCoLC)935259473(MiAaPQ)EBC4321857(EXLCZ)99371000000051998320160210h20162016 uy 0engurnnu---|u||utxtccrRecipes for thought knowledge and taste in the early modern English kitchen /Wendy WallPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2016.©20161 online resource (327 p.)Material textsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-4758-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface. The Appetizer --Introduction. The Order of Serving --Chapter 1. Taste Acts --Chapter 2. Pleasure: Kitchen Conceits in Print --Chapter 3. Literacies: Handwriting and Handiwork --Chapter 4. Temporalities: Preservation, Seasoning, and Memorialization --Chapter 5. Knowledge: Recipes and Experimental Cultures --Coda --Notes --Works Cited --Index --AcknowledgmentsFor a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries. Recipes reveal much more than the history of puddings and pies: they expose the unexpectedly therapeutic, literate, and experimental culture of the English kitchen. Wendy Wall explores ways that recipe writing-like poetry and artisanal culture-wrestled with the physical and metaphysical puzzles at the center of both traditional humanistic and emerging "scientific" cultures. Drawing on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and others to interpret a reputedly "unlearned" form of literature, she demonstrates that people from across the social spectrum concocted poetic exercises of wit, experimented with unusual and sometimes edible forms of literacy, and tested theories of knowledge as they wrote about healing and baking. Recipe exchange, we discover, invited early modern housewives to contemplate the complex components of being a Renaissance "maker" and thus to reflect on lofty concepts such as figuration, natural philosophy, national identity, status, mortality, memory, epistemology, truth-telling, and matter itself. Kitchen work, recipes tell us, engaged vital creative and intellectual labors.Material texts.Food writingEnglandHistory16th centuryFood writingEnglandHistory17th centuryCooking, EnglishHistory16th centuryCooking, EnglishHistory17th centuryFormulas, recipes, etcEnglandHistory16th centuryFormulas, recipes, etcEnglandHistory17th centuryMedicineFormulae, receipts, prescriptionsHistoryKnowledge, Sociology ofHistoryRenaissanceEnglandCultural Studies.Literature.Medieval and Renaissance Studies.Food writingHistoryFood writingHistoryCooking, EnglishHistoryCooking, EnglishHistoryFormulas, recipes, etc.HistoryFormulas, recipes, etc.HistoryMedicineHistory.Knowledge, Sociology ofHistory.Renaissance641.509Wall Wendy1961-1535002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797810303321Recipes for thought3782971UNINA