Reading Cookbooks: from The Forme of Cury to The Smitten Kitchen

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction: Reading recipes: Lasagne from the 14th to the 21st C
2	What Our Recipes & Cookbooks Reveal About Us Case Study: The Egg
3	Early English Cookery Manuscripts
4	The Forme of Cury	First Essay due
5	The Tudor Age: New World Ingredients & The Banquetting Table
6	Tudor Age cont.	Second Essay due
7	The 17th Century: French or English? Catholic or Protestant?
8	Robert May
9	18th Century: The Middle Class Domestic Cookery Book
10	Hannah Glasse
11	The Victorian Age: Separate Spheres	Third Essay due
12	The Victorian Age cont.
13	Isabella Beeton
14	The 19th Century: Feeding the Poor
15	Feeding the Poor cont.	Student presentation: Charles Elmé Francatelli
16	The Empire Abroad	Student presentation: “Wyvern”
17	“Wyvern” cont.
18	Post World War One	Student presentation: Florence White
19	Post World War Two: The Mediterranean Diet	Fourth Essay due
20	Elizabeth David
21	Return of the Native
22	England Today: The Domestic Goddess & The King of Offal
23	A Transatlantic Postscript: Contemporary American Cookbooks, Blogs, and Food Network
24	Conclustion	Fifth Essay due