Early Steam Kitchens

Authors

steam kitchens, ovens/appliances, Kitchens, marketing, social history, early 19th-century, steam ships

The author examines the rise of the steam kitchen which were not kitchens using steam, but an apparatus which produced and cooked with steam.

Patricia Bixler Reber, Independent Scholar

Patricia Bixler Reber is an American culinary historian focusing on foodways and cooking apparatus. In the latest Oxford Symposium proceedings she has a paper on the Hampton Mansion’s kitchen arrangements, and she has a blog ‘Researching Food History – Cooking and Dining’ <http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.co.uk>, and a website <http://www.hearthcook.com>.