Modernizing Markham

The book explores Gervase Markham's influential work, which stands as the first significant mass-market cookbook and housekeeping guide in English. Skinner revitalizes Markham's recipes and concepts, adapting them for modern audiences through a blog and subsequently compiling them into a new book. This engaging journey offers a fascinating glimpse into the culinary practices of historical English kitchens, bridging the gap between past and present in a creative and accessible way.