Editors’ Choice: Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks
Much of the study of cookbooks relies on guesswork and reading between the lines that are written down—the type of guesswork that requires cookbooks be read alongside other types of texts rather than standing on their own. This article presents a novel method for analyzing and reading food stains in historical manuscripts using infrared spectroscopy, […]