What is it about?

This article talks about the kitchen as a site for science, especially dissection, during the time of the Scientific Revolution.

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Why is it important?

The Ghastly Kitchen uses sources such as cookbooks and household manuals and historical work on cooking and kitchens as well as the more usual sources in the history of science. The illustrations include anatomical texts and genre paintings on kitchens.

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The Ghastly Kitchen combines my interests in the history of food and cooking with my long-time research topic in the history of animal use in science. I hope the result is not too ghastly, but helps readers to re-imagine the places of seventeenth-century science.

Professor Anita Guerrini
Oregon State University

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This page is a summary of: The Ghastly Kitchen, History of Science, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0073275315617769.
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