Danish Cookbooks Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901

Name: Danish Cookbooks Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901
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ISBN: 9780295986821

ISBN-10: 0295986824

ISBN-13: 9780295986821

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carol Gold

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Cookbooks tell stories. They open up the worlds in which the people who wrote and read them once lived. In the hands of a good historian, cookbooks can be shown to contain the markings of political, social, and ideological changes that we conventionally locate outside the kitchen. Cookbooks allow us to trace the course of empires, of social roles, and of new nations over time. Danish Cookbooks: Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901 draws from three hundred years of Danish cookbooks to trace the growth of a bourgeois consciousness, the development of domesticity and gendered spheres, and the evolution of nationalism and a specific Danish identity from the early seventeenth to the…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



First course : cookbooks as historical source material


First intermezzo : menus


Second course : how cookbooks change


Second intermezzo : cookbook introductions


Third course : the development of a bourgeois consciousness


Third intermezzo : bread


Fourth course : the growth of domesticity


Fourth intermezzo : maps of Denmark


Fifth course : the development of nationalism


Fifth intermezzo : Dannebrog


Six course : potatoes and Danish national identity


Sixth intermezzo : Christiane Rosen, cookbook author


Seventh course : how recipes change