Editors: Amanda E. Herbert, Durham University Amanda Herbert is a historian of the body: gender and sexuality, health and wellness, food and drink. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain was published by Yale University Press in 2014, … Continue reading Editorial Team →
By Emma Spary and Justin Rivest The project “Selling the Exotic in Paris and Versailles, 1670-1730”, running in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and funded by Leverhulme Research Grant 2014-289, held its planned workshop in April this year. Its theme, “Consumers of the Exotic: European commerce and the consumption of exotic … Continue reading Consumers of the Exotic: summary of a workshop in Cambridge, April 5-6, 2017 →
By Henry Power This post is about two sort-of-recipe-books published in the first decade of the eighteenth century. When I say sort-of-recipe-books, I mean that although both of them are full of culinary precepts, neither is likely to have been used in the kitchen. But taken together, the two books give an insight into the … Continue reading Cookery, Ancient and Modern →
By Lisa Smith September 2017 will mark The Recipe Project‘s fifth anniversary: a big one in the blogging world. And on 29 December, we published our 501st post! We’ve come a long way since Elaine Leong and I had the idea of setting up a blog. One of our goals right from the start (besides sharing … Continue reading Here’s to a New Year! →