The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelm Digby

by Kenelm Digby

Overview

Digby was a natural writer, as entertaining as instructive. Many of the recipes are for drinks, particularly of meads or metheglins, but the culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of accepted practice among court circles in Restoration England, with extra details supplied from Digby's European travels. The editors also include the inventory of Digby's own kitchen in his London house, discovered amongst papers now deposited in the British Library; and they have provided a few modern interpretations of Digby's recipes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909248212
Publisher:	Boyars, Marion Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/10/2010
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years