The British Housewife Cookery-Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Dr Lehmann's original thesis, submitted to the University of Burgundy in Dijon, has always had mythic status: the French taking English cookery seriously? So much material about 18th-century cookery books locked away in a doctoral vault, hidden from our hungry eyes? To find out how ordinary people really ate, Lehmann conducts a fingertip search of contemporary diaries and memoirs, and in the process discovers a hundred little human dramas, fraught with greed and envy. Jane Austen writes to her sister about the provincial earliness of the dinner hour at Steventon, and Boswell drops in on a friend and finds her tucking into pigeon pie, beef and drinking madeira so naturally, he joins in. This book is a delight for both historians and enthusiasts of cooking.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781903018040 |
Publisher: | Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd |
Imprint: | Prospect Books |
Pub date: | 11 Dec 2002 |
DEWEY: | 641.5094109033 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 494 |
Weight: | 1293g |
Height: | 246mm |
Width: | 174mm |
Spine width: | 35mm |