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The Good Housewife
Thomas Dawson
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Description for The Good Housewife
Hardback. A cookery book which includes many herbal treatments and applications. Series: Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Written for the growing middle classes in Elizabethan England and published in 1596/97, this is a sophisticated cookery book which includes many herbal treatments and applications. As a cookery writer, Thomas Dawson place is firmly between the late medieval tradition of the fourteen and fifteenth centuries and the more florid cookery books that came later. Nothing is known about the patrons for whom he worked or wrote this book for but they must have come from the growing middle class. This is good food of a very high order not over-decorated and not too fatty but cooked simply with an ... Read more
Written for the growing middle classes in Elizabethan England and published in 1596/97, this is a sophisticated cookery book which includes many herbal treatments and applications. As a cookery writer, Thomas Dawson place is firmly between the late medieval tradition of the fourteen and fifteenth centuries and the more florid cookery books that came later. Nothing is known about the patrons for whom he worked or wrote this book for but they must have come from the growing middle class. This is good food of a very high order not over-decorated and not too fatty but cooked simply with an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Southover Press Historic Cookery & Housekeeping
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Lewes, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781870962124
SKU
V9781870962124
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-11
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