Episode 2853
Martha Bradley
Tue, 2025-Feb-25 00:30 UTC
Length - 1:49
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The featured article for Tuesday, 25 February 2025 is Martha Bradley.
Martha Bradley (fl. 1740s–1755) was a British cookery book writer. Little is known about her life, except that she published the cookery book The British Housewife in 1756 and worked as a cook for over thirty years in the fashionable spa town of Bath, Somerset.
Bradley's only printed work, The British Housewife was released as a 42-issue partwork between January and October 1756. It was published in a two-volume book form in 1758, and is more than a thousand pages long. It is likely that Bradley was dead before the partwork was published. The book follows the French style of nouvelle cuisine, distinguishing Bradley from other female cookery book writers at the time, who focused on the British or English style of food preparation. The work is carefully organised and the recipes taken from other authors are amended, suggesting she was a knowledgeable and experienced cook, able to improve on existing dishes.
Because of the length of The British Housewife, it was not reprinted until 1996; as a result, few modern writers have written extensively on Bradley or her work.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Tuesday, 25 February 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Martha Bradley on Wikipedia.
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