The Well-Kept Kitchen (Gervase Markham) Interiors physical and spiritual well‑being

physical and spiritual well‑being

In Bitter Honey

The Perfect Peach

Early Edition

cooking can provide an outlet for meaningful personal expression

The Well-Kept Kitchen (Gervase Markham) Interiors physical and spiritual well‑beingIn 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 share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this