The Most Famous Cooks You’ve Never Heard Of
Chepina Peralta? Tarla Dalal? Alison Holst? You’ve heard of them, right? Probably not unless you live in Mexico, India, or New Zealand. They are just three of many women who…
Read moreServants in the Kitchen: Professed Cooks and Plain Cooks
I don’t think it’s possible to address the question of whether employers appropriated the culinary knowledge of their cooks without understanding the different kinds of cooks in domestic service. Four…
Read moreServants in the Kitchen: They Have A History Too
With the rise in the middle class, there was a rise in the one or two servant household. And then this fell again.
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