About Dishes for the Sick Room

Lindsay Middleton is a fourth year PhD researcher across the University of Glasgow and University of Aberdeen. Her interdisciplinary SGSAH-funded project, ‘The Technical Recipe: A Formal Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Food Writing’, straddles English Literature and the History of Technology. Using a structural analysis of the recipe genre, Lindsay investigates how food writers in the nineteenth century used material food technologies as a way of situating themselves in culinary histories. She has written and presented on food adulteration, narrative cookbooks, the ideology of food and thrift, and tinned foods. Lindsay has published on tinned foods as a disruptive technology, and has publications in progress addressing food adulteration in the 1820s, broiling and imagination, and thrifty nineteenth-century recipes. She has also engaged in internship work with the National Trust for Scotland that reimagines the way food features in historical properties.