Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another. It illustrates how recipes came to blend newly encountered ingredients and practices with long-established healthcare methods. In the process, it offers attention to both the English countryside and the American colonies to expand what is often a London-centered view of English healthcare. Tracing the circulation of women's domestic knowledge and considering the availability of ingredients, this work shows how mobility brought new methods and materials to home healthcare, which in turn influenced how women and their families envisioned their relationships to their environment, their bodies, and their nation.

Hillary M. Nunn is Professor of English at The University of Akron. With Madeline Bassnett, she edited the collection In the Kitchen, 1550–1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). She is a co-founding member of the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective and author of Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Tragedy in the Early Stuart Era (Ashgate, 2005).

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Recipes on the Move
Chapter 1: Local Waters and Notions of Home in Early Modern Recipe Manuscripts
Chapter 2: “North and South and Middle Countries are Proud in this Lady”: Lady Grace Castleton's Recipes and Women's Mobility
Chapter 3: Considering the Starter Collection: Fanshawe, Family, and Imported Knowledge
Chapter 4: Keeping English Bodies: Preserving, Seasoning, and Englishness in Early Virginia Recipes
Chapter 5: Traveling Diseases, Imported Cures: Rheumatism and Sassafras in Home Medical Manuscripts
Epilogue: The Travels of The Great Cordial
A Note on Conventions
Bibliography
Index