The Country House Kitchen (History) - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the noted food and wine critic Hugo Dunn-Meynell with his bookplate. Physical description; xi, 266 p. : ill., plans ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Summary; An overview of the working elements of the country house kitchen, looking at the evolution of the cooking fire and the range, cooking vessels and gadgets and the staff who used them, providing insight into the realities of life below stairs in the great country houses of Britain. Subjects; Home economics - Great Britain - History. Kitchens - Great Britain - History. Great Britain - Social conditions. Kitchens - History. Great Britain. Kitchens - Country Houses - (1650-1900) - Design History. country houses. kitchens. food. British & Irish history: (c 1500 to c 1700) ; Home & house maintenance ; Social & cultural history ; Palaces, chateaux, country houses. England ; (c 1600 to c 1700) ; (c 1700 to c 1800) ; (c 1800 to c 1900). Cooking / History. Home economics ; Great Britain ; History ; Kitchens ; Kitchen utensils. Genre; Illustrated.