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Early Modern, Family and Household, Material History, Posts, Tools and Techniques

Recipes in space (domestically speaking…)

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By Sara Pennell What spaces do recipes occupy? They occupy a distinctive place on the page and might take up a few inches of shelf-space, when bound together. But these textual traces are only the runes of practice; as such, while they survive in one textual dimension for us to recover as historians, they occupied space and travelled … Continue reading Recipes in space (domestically speaking…) →

British Studies, Early Modern, Series: Beer

Fueling Beer Breweries in Early Modern London

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By William M. Cavert The shop down the road that sells alcoholic drinks offers such a variety of beers and ales that while shopping I sometimes imagine myself newly arrived from a communist planned economy into some bewilderingly choice-laden consumer paradise. Beer made in ever-so-small batches by Belgian monks, or by siblings in post-industrial Chicago, … Continue reading Fueling Beer Breweries in Early Modern London →