CLASS CANCELED TODAY BECAUSE OF SNOW

 

Week 4

KITCHEN, SCULLERY, LARDER, SERVANTS’ WORK

MEET AT ALUMNI HOUSE; BRING ALUMNI HOUSE PLANS AND NOTES AS WELL AS THIS WEEK’S READINGS AND DISCUSSION TOPICS

 

Videos:

Lucy Worsley, “History of the Home” (British domestic life, medieval-present day):
“4. The Kitchen” (58:47 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtC6X7ylmZE

 

Readings:

Bryson, At Home, Chapters 4 (“The Kitchen”) and 5 (“The Scullery and Larder”), pp. 106-166

Lin Foxhall, “House Clearance: Unpacking the ‘Kitchen’ in Classical Greece,” British School at Athens Studies 15 (2007): 233-42. [Available via Canvas and JSTOR]

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother, pp. 53-62 [https://huntersocfamilies.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/ruth-schwartz-cowan-more-work-for-mother.pdf].