The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850

by Sara Pennell

Book Overview

Sara Pennell traces the emergence of the domestic kitchen as a distinctive space that helped make houses homes from the 17th century through to the middle of the 19th, and explores how the kitchen and its contents - from the hearth to the contents of the dresser drawer -- became a site of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350056189
• ISBN13: 9781350056183
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"