https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/25/787/Kitchen.png 5b253dedc986da8ae86ad28fc762f397 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Object Descriptions from Centering Spenser Subject The topic of the resource Objects Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Centering Spenser, Dr. Thomas Herron, ECU Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kitchen Subject The topic of the resource Bawn Area Description An account of the resource Archaeologist Eric Klingelhofer suggests that a kitchen building may have been attached to an interior bawn wall (also hypothetical) that runs roughly SW-NE between the Tower House and the east bawn wall. A small kitchen building is therefore recreated at the intersection of this interior wall and the east bawn wall. A covered servants’ corridor runs between the kitchen and the Great Hall. It is almost certain that Kilcolman also had some form of kitchen garden for growing fruit, vegetables and herbs (see Bawn area: garden and Tower House Parlor: apples). Literary Connections Spenser’s House of Temperance, an allegory for the human body (see also Tower House Study: desk and Tower House Privy), has a huge kitchen, symbolizing the stomach: <blockquote> It was a vaut ybuilt for great dispence, With many raunges reard along the wall; And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, The smoke forth threw. And in the midst of all There placed was a caudron wide and tall, Vpon a mightie fornace, burning whott, More whott, then Aetn’, or flaming Mongiball: For day and night it brent, ne ceased not, So long as any thing it in the caudron got. But to delay the heat, least by mischaunce It might breake out, and set the whole on fyre, There added was by goodly ordinaunce, An huge great payre of bellowes, which did styre Continually, and cooling breath inspyre. About the Caudron many Cookes accoyld, With hookes and ladles, as need did requyre; The whyles the viaundes in the vessel boyld They did about their businesse sweat, and sorely toyld. (FQ II.ix.29-30) </blockquote> Links <a href="https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/schools/key-stage-3/tudor-kitchens-revealed/%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/schools/key-stage-3/tudor-kitchens-revealed/</a> (accessed 1/30/18) [the kitchens of the Tudor palace, Hampton Court, near London] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Thomas Herron, ECU Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bibliography: Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012): 221, 325-6. Eric Klingelhofer, “Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman Castle: the archaeological evidence.” Post-Medieval Archaeology 39.1 (2005), 133-54.