"For al them that delight in Cookery" : the production and use of cookery books in England, 1300-1600
Sarah Peters Kernan (Author), Daniel Hobbins (Degree supervisor), Alison Beach (Degree supervisor), Ohio State University Department of History, Ohio State University (Degree granting institution)
Through an examination of the codicological and bibliographical features of manuscript and print cookbooks produced between 1300 and 1600, I offer a narrative of the early history of English cookeries, their readers, and their producers. The success of the genre was due, in part, to its flexibility. Cookbooks could be used in multiple ways in and out of the kitchen. Furthermore, I examine the shift from manuscript to print through the lens of cookbooks. I argue that an audience for early English printed cookbooks was already in place prior to the introduction of print. The audience for cookeries in England grew steadily over the course of three hundred years, incorporating new readers who spanned class and gender divides. The expanding audience in turn propelled new cookbook production
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2016
Ohio State University, [Columbus], 2016