SC - pre-1500 cookery

[Mark.S Harris]

> >>The answer might be in the fact that there are more cookbooks
> >>available the
> >>later one gets, and that the later ones are easier to read and redact
> >>than the
> >>earlier ones.  Comments anyone?

I  believe that post-1500 cookery books are more popular because they
are 1. more plentiful (the invention of the printing press makes books,
in general, more plentiful), and 2. in close-to-modern English, so they
are more accessible to the amateur and to the non-scholar.

toodles, margaret
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