2010/09/01 by Wendy Wall · 2 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Arts and Humanities · #Financial Crisis of the 21st Century #Literature: history, themes, analysis #Cultural History and Identity Formation
paper · doi:10.1525/hlq.2010.73.3.383
In this essay, Wendy Wall explores various forms of kitchen literacy as evidenced in early modern printed English domestic guides and handwritten recipe collections. Manuals by Thomas Tusser, John Partridge, Gervase Markham, and Hannah Woolley formatted different ideological formations of domesticity precisely through the protocols they advanced. In numerous extant manuscript collections by Elizabeth Fowler, Anne Percy, and Lettice Pudsey, among others, handwriting forms a continuum with the handiwork of the home. Recipe books, she argues, underscore the usefulness of working with an expansive and material notion of reading and writing—as embodied and institutionally informed practices that took shape even as one cooked.