TY - BOOK AU - Bassnett,Madeline AU - Crow,Andy AU - Fisher,Julie A. AU - Goldstein,David B. AU - Laroche,Rebecca AU - Munroe,Jennifer AU - Nunn,Hillary AU - Nunn,Hillary M. AU - Schultheis,Melissa AU - Simon,Margaret AU - Snook,Edith AU - Tigner,Amy L. AU - Wakeman,Rob AU - Walker,Katherine TI - In the Kitchen, 1550-1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad T2 - Food Culture, Food History before 1900 SN - 9789048552368 AV - TX705 .I555 2022 U1 - 641.59420903 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Cooking KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Kitchens KW - Cultural Studies KW - Early Modern Studies KW - Food Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714) KW - bisacsh KW - Cooking, Recipes, Renaissance, English, Women N1 - Frontmatter --; Food Culture, Food History before 1900 --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: In the Kitchen --; Section 1 Embodied Ecologies --; 1. Sympoeisis and Early Modern Cooking : Troubling the Boundaries of Human/Nonhuman --; 2. Between Earth and Sky : The Cook as Environmental Mediator in Paradise Lost --; 3. Instinct and the Body of the Early Modern Cook --; Section 2 Bread, Cake, and Carp --; 4. Early Modern Leaven in Bread, Bodies, and Spirit --; 5. Cake: An Early Modern Chronicle of Trade, Technology, and Exchange --; 6. The Power of the Pot : Naturalizing Carp Through the Early Modern English Receipt Book --; Section 3 Royalist Cookery --; 7. How to Make a Bisk: The Restoration Cookbook as National Restorative --; 8. ‘A Little Winter Savory, A Little Time’ : Making History in Elizabeth Cromwell’s Kitchen --; 9. A Culinary Embassy : Diplomatic Home Making in Lady Ann Fanshawe’s Booke of Receipts --; Section 4 Around the Hearth --; 10. Minding the Fire : Human-Fire Coagency in Margaret Cavendish’s Matrimonial Trouble and Seventeenth-Century Recipes --; 11. ‘Teâgun kuttiemaûnch: What Food Shall I Prepare for You?’: Exchanges in Early New England Kitchens --; 12. ‘A New Source of Happiness to Man’? : Maple Sugaring and Settler Colonialism in the Early Modern Atlantic World --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552368?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552368 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048552368/original ER -