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Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England

Title
  1. Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.
Published by
  1. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Author
  1. Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien, 1975-

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Description
  1. 281 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming "treasuries for health," each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elain Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or "household science." By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science"--Back cover.
Subject
  1. 1600-1699
  2. Medicine, Popular > History > 17th century
  3. Formulas, recipes, etc. > England > History > 17th century
  4. Home economics > England > History > 17th century
  5. Note-taking > History > 17th century
  6. Medicine > History > 17th century
  7. Medicine, Traditional > history
  8. History, 17th Century
  9. 15.70 history of Europe
  10. HEALTH & FITNESS > General
  11. Medicine
  12. Formulas, recipes, etc
  13. Home economics
  14. Medicine, Popular
  15. Note-taking
  16. Haushalt
  17. Hausmittel
  18. Medizin
  19. Arzneibuch
  20. Haushaltsführung
  21. England
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-271) and index.