by Jennifer Sherman Roberts When I first began researching early modern recipe books, I was struck by how they upended my expectations of the genre. Some of the recipes seemed to me, quite frankly, weird: the making of puppy water, the application of dung to a wound, the addition of ground human skull to a medicine. And it became clear that they comprised all manner of early modern daily life, not just food. I was struck by how the recipes jostled together on the … Continue reading A Stitch in Thyme?: Why Are There So Few Knitting Patterns in Recipe Books?
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