Alfred Knopf.(The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess)(My Life in France)(Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany)(Book review)

California Bookwatch | August 1, 2006 | Copyright

Alfred Knopf

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Kathryn Hughes' THE SHORT LIFE AND LONG TIMES OF MRS. BEETON: THE FIRST DOMESTIC GODDESS (0307263738, $29.95) provides an outstanding biographical key to an early housewife whose book of recipes and domestic advice evolved into a virtual bible of details for other women. Mrs. Beeton lived in a simple house in the suburbs and died at only 28, shortly after her book's publication, so she never saw how it exploded in popularity, reaching the newly affluent with ...

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