This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most com
During the mid- to late seventeenth century, women in Irish houses from elite backgrounds started to collect recipes, which they recorded in domestic manuscript
Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrat
This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upo
This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women’s writing by exploring women’s debts to and appropriations of different