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Holly Tucker

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November 03, 1967

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http://www.holly-tucker.com

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History, Mystery & Thrillers, Science

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November 2010

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Holly Tucker teaches at Vanderbilt University, where she holds appointments in the Center for Medicine, Health & Society and the Department of French & Italian. Her writing has appeared in the New Scientist, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Journal, among others. Holly is also the author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution (Norton, March 2011), and edits the general history website Wonders & Marvels.

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The Puppy Water and Other Early Modern Canine Recipes

At first I thought it was a joke when I read a recipe for “The Puppy Water” in a recipe collection compiled by one Mary Doggett in 1682. “Take one Young fatt puppy and put him into a flatt Still Quartered Gutts and all ye Skin upon him”, then distill it along with buttermilk, white wine, pared lemons, herbs, camphire, venus turpentine, red rosewater, fasting spittle, and eighteen pippins.

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Books by Holly Tucker

Average rating: 3.56 · 378 ratings · 124 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution 3.56 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Not on the High Street by Holly Tucker (Goodreads Author), Sophie Cornish 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	The Devil's Eyes by Jennifer Loren (Goodreads Author), Holly Tucker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Natalie Hijazi (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:

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State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

by Caroline Weber

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Holly Tucker said: "I am loving every minute of this book. The writing is gorgeous and the topic is, of course, absolutely fascinating! "

Jun 05, 2011 05:18pm · see review

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I was so impressed by the voice and character development In this novel. And it has been a long time since a book has made me truly cry. This one did.
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