1st Edition
Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America Domestic Medicine, Mobility, and Manuscript Culture
By Hillary Nunn
Copyright 2025
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another. It illustrates how recipes came to blend newly encountered ingredients and practices with long-established healthcare methods. In the process, it offers attention to both the English... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Recipes on the Move, Chapter 1: Local Waters and Notions of Home in Early Modern Recipe Manuscripts, Chapter 2: North and South and Middle Countries are Proud in this Lady: Lady Grace Castleton's Recipes and Women's Mobility, Chapter 3: Considering the Starter Collection: Fanshawe, Family, and Imported Knowledge, Chapter 4: Keeping English Bodies: Preserving, Seasoning, and Englishness in Early Virginia Recipes, Chapter 5: Traveling Diseases, Imported Cures: Rheumatism and Sassafras in Home Medical Manuscripts, Epilogue: The Travels of The Great Cordial, A Note on Conventions, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Hillary M. Nunn is Professor of English at The University of Akron. With Madeline Bassnett, she edited the collection In the Kitchen, 1550–1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). 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).
