2024 the best housewives review
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Markham reveals the "pretty and curious secrets" of preparing everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a "humble feast" - an undertaking which entails preparing "no less than two and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table." He instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine, growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a housewife was also responsible for the health and "soundness of body" of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other source from this period provides the same richness of information in such a readable style. Michael Best's introduction and his abundant notes make The English Housewife readily accessible to the contemporary reader.
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press; Illustrated edition (October 18, 1994)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0773511032
ISBN-13 : 978-0773511033
Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9.1 inches
Reviewer: Laura Jevtich
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: There is so much good information in here...I just have to learn to speak 1600 style!
Review: First, I love the vocabulary at the book's end and the footnotes. They are so important when reading an older-styled book with a 21st-century mind. I am using this information to research my book, and there is an excellent font to read. I realize that Gervase Markham is the writer, but the editor did a fine job and should be commended for making it so easy to read. Well done! This is a book I will come back to often.
Reviewer: Laura R
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Painstakingly researched and footnoted
Review: I'm happy to report that this isn't one of those books where some digitization service scanned it and everyone else is just churning out prints of the PDF. No. This book is beautifully typeset and edited, eminently readable, and very thoroughly researched and footnoted.There is a LOT of information in here, including medicine, food, cosmetics, textiles, dyeing, and malting (among others - this is just what I remember off the top of my head).
Reviewer: Robert
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing cultural and culinary trip
Review: Interesting voyage back in the kitchen of the 17th century.
Reviewer: Cindy Damato
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This belongs with everyone's cookbook collection. Great gift idea for the foodie fan
Review: Ordered this book after watching a show that mentioned it. Book was in excellent condition. A must for history buffs who enjoy reading about how people lived and managed 100 years ago
Reviewer: Laurie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fascinating Book
Review: Great book! Very informative and helpful to have something written in the period.
Reviewer: Manthra
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Good early "cookbook".
Reviewer: Law Princess
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Primary Source
Review: The English Housewife is the primary text from which many other books on Elizabethan Women derive much of their information. First written in 1615, it gives "a moste excellent account of the duties and knowledge of the husewyfe". Of interest to womens and renaissance history buffs, as well as re-enactors.
Reviewer: Sera
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good
Review: He used alot of sources that were not orginally his and he actually admits he does a good job of taking information and condensing it and putting it all together, after reading the intro I wonder how much of the work is really his. However the section on how to heal things like, burns is hilarious and I wonder how the poor victims of this cure turned out.
Reviewer: Elizabeth Shillaker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is one of my favourite books for information about Women's lives in the 17th century.A fabulous resource for recipes, herbalists, fabric productions for dyeing, wool hemp and flax.I'm going to bind this paperback with leather so I can use it whilst taking part in Living History displays.
Reviewer: Susan Eaton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Just what I needed for my research
Reviewer: Kevin
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: purchased as a gift... which went down well.
Reviewer: D CUTTS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Worth the long wait for delivery
Reviewer: J. Gale
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: As described and quick delivery.