For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the
most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only
country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives.
Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of
English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the
course of two centuries. Recipes reveal much more than the history
of puddings and pies: they expose the unexpectedly therapeutic,
literate, and experimental culture of the English kitchen. Wendy
Wall explores ways that recipe writing-like poetry and artisanal
culture-wrestled with the physical and metaphysical puzzles at the
center of both traditional humanistic and emerging "scientific"
cultures. Drawing on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and
others to interpret a reputedly "unlearned" form of literature, she
demonstrates that people from across the social spectrum concocted
poetic exercises of wit, experimented with unusual and sometimes
edible forms of literacy, and tested theories of knowledge as they
wrote about healing and baking. Recipe exchange, we discover,
invited early modern housewives to contemplate the complex
components of being a Renaissance "maker" and thus to reflect on
lofty concepts such as figuration, natural philosophy, national
identity, status, mortality, memory, epistemology, truth-telling,
and matter itself. Kitchen work, recipes tell us, engaged vital
creative and intellectual labors.
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