Tales from the Archives: Pen, Ink, and Pedagogy
This month, This Recipes Project is six years old. This September also marks our fourth Teaching Ser…
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This month, This Recipes Project is six years old. This September also marks our fourth Teaching Ser…
Carla Cevasco During my most recent move, I observed (while sweating, and swearing, and trying to ke…
Welcome to the September 2018 edition of the First Monday Library Chat. This month we travel to Tusc…
Jessica P. Clark As I’ve discussed in previous posts, the mid-nineteenth century saw a rise in comme…
In 2017, The Recipes Project celebrated its fifth birthday. We now have over 665 posts in our archiv…
He Bian In the late eighteenth century, American ginseng opened up a new niche market in Qing China….
This month, we’re excited to collaborate with History of Knowledge to celebrate the upcoming confere…
By Jessica P. Clark In 1864, London perfumer Eugène Rimmel (of modern Rimmel Cosmetics fame) published The Book of Perfumes. Compiled from a series of articles he wrote for science-minded readers of The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, the book charted the … Continue reading →
By Jessica P. Clark As we’ve seen in previous posts, eighteenth-century English newspapers were important sites for exchanging recipes and knowledge. This tradition flourished in the nineteenth century via a textual forum aimed specifically at female readers: correspondence columns in … Continue reading →