About Domestic Knowledge

Focusing on recipe books housed at the Wellcome Library in London, this project aims to make these sources more accessible. Here we include transcriptions of recipe books written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; recreations of historical recipes and reflections about recent scholarship on historic food cultures and foodways; and research essays about early modern cookery, domestic science and medicine, and culinary recipes and recipe books from a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches.

This public history project was researched and created by Wake Forest University students in Professor Stephanie Koscak's course, "Wives, Writers, and Witches: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe” (HST 323). Knowledge Futures and Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication at ZSR Library provided project development support. Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library, the Wake Forest University Department of History, and the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute provided financial support, along with support made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contributors

Course Concept and Design: Dr. Stephanie Koscak

Domestic Knowledge Project Concept: Dr. Stephanie Koscak, Kyle Denlinger, Allison Vanouse

Domestic Knowledge Project Management: Kyle Denlinger, Allison Vanouse

Production Editing: Allison Vanouse

Line, Copy, and Visualization Editing: Allison Vanouse, Katherine Fata, Talia Austin

Metadata Editing: Talia Austin

Recommended Citation

Koscak, S., Denlinger, K., Vanouse, A., Fata, K., and Austin, T. (Eds.). (2023). Domestic Knowledge. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library.