 | Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen Subjects: Food writing -- England -- History -- 16th century; Food writing -- England -- History -- 17th century; Cooking English -- History -- 16th century; Cooking English -- History -- 17th century; Formulas recipes etc. -- England -- History -- 16th century; Situated at the vital intersection of physiology, gastronomy, decorum, knowledge-production, and labor, recipes from the past allow us to understand the significant ways that kitchen work was an intellectual and creative enterprise. Wendy Wall is director of the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Northwestern University. She is author of The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance and Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. |
