print email comment close Household Words: Women Write From and For the Kitchen URL: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/aresty/aresty1.html Description: Devoted to "cookery manuscripts and published books of recipes, etiquette and household advice." Contains images of texts and explores the history of cookbooks and the social significance of culinary writings (including "receipt" books) on the lives of women. Features information on cooking schools, the advent of "home economics," and the impact of the food industry and mass production. From the Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts, University of Pennsylvania Library. Author: Theophano, Janet Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Library Library of Congress Subject Headings: Cookery -- Bibliography Cookery -- Early works to 1800 Women food writers LII Database Information: Record 3981 created by Tom McGibney on 04/24/2002 Last modification on 03/08/2004 Published: 04/24/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3981