The Well-Kept Kitchen

Nonfiction, Food & Drink, Food Writing, Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Gervase Markham ISBN: 9780241950906
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: April 7, 2011
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Gervase Markham
ISBN: 9780241950906
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: April 7, 2011
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should behave). Aimed at middle-class women who would share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this companionable and opinionated book offers a richly enjoyable glimpse of the way we lived, worked and ate 400 years ago.

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In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should behave). Aimed at middle-class women who would share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this companionable and opinionated book offers a richly enjoyable glimpse of the way we lived, worked and ate 400 years ago.

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