title: Opening the queen's closet: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth Cromwell, and the politics of cookery.
abstract: The essay shows how two royalist recipe books- The queens closet opened (1655) and The court & kitchin (sic) of Elizabeth (1664)- fashioned Henrietta Maria (1609-69) and Elizabeth Cromwell (1598-1665) as very different housewives to the English nation. By portraying the much-disliked French Catholic Henrietta Maria as engaged in English domestic practices, The queens closet opened implicitly responded to the scandalous private revelations of The kings cabinet opened (1645); while, in contrast, the satiric cookery book attributed to Elizabeth Cromwell stigmatized her as both a country bumpkin and a foreigner. Yet the cookery books also had unintended republicanizing effects, as consumers appropriated the contents of the queen's closet for their own cabinets and kitchens.
authors.affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Laura Lunger
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Knoppers
mesh_terms: D003296:Cooking / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D004032:Diet / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D004467:Economics; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011056:Political Systems / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history; D012923:Social Class; D006113:United Kingdom; D014930:Women / Q000266:history