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Shanahan, Madeline.

Manuscript Recipe Books as Archaeological Objects : Text and Food in the Early Modern World. - 1 online resource (165 pages)

Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Apéritif -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a Framework for the Analysis of Textual Objects in Historical Archaeology -- 2 Irish Manuscript Recipe Books -- 3 Material Culture in the Early Modern Kitchen -- 4 Tastes of Empire -- 5 Recipes for the Modern Woman -- 6 "Wright by her own hande": Kinship, Community and the Individual -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

This is a detailed study of Irish manuscript recipe books dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the close of the Georgian period (1830) from the perspective of historical archaeology. It is the first published study of the Irish collection of manuscript recipe books, as well as the first published archaeological study of the genre globally.

ISBN: 9780739191927

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cooking, Irish - History.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: TX717.5 -- .S49 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 641.3009