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This article talks about the kitchen as a site for science, especially dissection, during the time of the Scientific Revolution.
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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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This page is a summary of: The Ghastly Kitchen, History of Science, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0073275315617769.
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