The Well-Kept Kitchen Paperback - 2011
by Gervase Markham
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 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 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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- Title The Well-Kept Kitchen
- Author Gervase Markham
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 135
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, NY
- Date 2011-10-25
- ISBN 9780241956410 / 0241956412
- Weight 0.24 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.13 x 4.57 x 0.46 in (18.11 x 11.61 x 1.17 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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