Seasonal Tastes: English Literary and Recipe Culture, 1550-1750
Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature
The Pennsylvania State University, Abington College
Reading poetry alongside how-to literature, this project explores England’s intertwined literary and recipe cultures to consider flavor, time, poetics, and climate in the early modern period. By taking poetic and practical discussions of the seasons as its central focus, this study intervenes in recent debates in literary studies, food studies, and the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies.