The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire'InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice to young memsahibs in India. They explain how to 'make a hold' over servants, how to establish and stock a storeroom, how to plan a menu, manage young children, treat bites from 'mad, or even doubtful dogs', and teach an Indian cook how to make fish quenelles. The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook promisedits reader a comprehensive guide to domesticitiy in India, even if she fo…
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Weitere Autoren: Gardiner, Grace / Crane, Ralph (Hrsg.) / Johnston, Anna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-161758-4
- EAN: 9780191617584
- Produktnummer: 13996796
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'293 KB
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Both authors were married to members of the Indian Civil Service and lived and travelled in India with their families for more than two decades. The senior partner, Flora Annie Steel took a strong interest in Indian life, learned to speak, read, and write Punjabi and committed to improving the lives of the local native women. She helped to establish schools and served on the Provincial Education Board. She also wrote stories for children and novels including herbest-known novel on the Indian Mutiny, On the Face of the Waters.
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