British cookbooks and the transformation of taste 1660-1760

In this dissertation, I investigate the ways in which cookbooks published in Britain between 1660 and 1760 helped to shape conceptions of physical and aesthetic taste. I propose that in the early and mid-eighteenth century aesthetics and cookery were neither parallel phenomena nor completely distin...

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Main Author: MacWilliam, Erin Louise Frances
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46346