Well-Kept Kitchen e-bog
66,68 DKK
(inkl. moms 83,35 DKK)
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 sh...
E-bog
66,68 DKK
Forlag
Penguin
Udgivet
7 april 2011
Længde
1123 sider
Genrer
Literary essays
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780241950906
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.