This module focuses on recipe books and husbandry manuals, books written for, and sometimes by, women and servants about how to run a household. We will discuss print and manuscript contexts and draw on work from a variety of fields including the history of science and book history to shed light on the ways in which knowledge - and food - is created and disseminated in the early modern period. We will also learn about the global interconnections of early modern food, such as how sugar is connected to Empire. The class will include following early modern recipes and experimenting with a range of digital tools such as mapmaking and podcasting.