| The British Housewife Contributor(s): Lehmann, Gilly (Author) |
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ISBN: 1903018048 ISBN-13: 9781903018040 Publisher: Prospect Books (UK) OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History - History | Modern - 18th Century - Cooking | Methods - Canning & Preserving |
| Dewey: 641.509 |
| LCCN: 2005472124 |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 7.36" W x 9.8" (2.85 lbs) 494 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dr Lehmann's original thesis, submitted to the University of Burgundy in Dijon, has always had mythic status: the French taking English cookery seriously? So much material about 18th-century cookery books locked away in a doctoral vault, hidden from our hungry eyes? To find out how ordinary people really ate, Lehmann conducts a fingertip search of contemporary diaries and memoirs, and in the process discovers a hundred little human dramas, fraught with greed and envy. Jane Austen writes to her sister about the provincial earliness of the dinner hour at Steventon, and Boswell drops in on a friend and finds her tucking into pigeon pie, beef and drinking madeira so naturally, he joins in. This book is a delight for both historians and enthusiasts of cooking. |
