SC - Questions

[Tom Brady]

At 07:59 AM 5/2/97 EDT, you wrote:
>One reference he made in the first chapter caught my eye. He says that
>the first cookbook printed on a printing press was Kuchenmeisterey
>(Cooking Mastery) printed in Nuremberg in 1485 and that 56 editions of
>this book were printed. Has anyone heard of it? Is it available in
>English Translation?

Here's what I was able to find in the Library of Congress records:

Title:         Kuchenmeysterey / in Abbildung herausgegeben von
                  Rolf Ehnert.
Published:     G=E8oppingen : K=E8ummerle, 1981.
Description:   65, x p. ; 21 cm.
Series:        Litterae ; Nr. 71
LC Call No.:   TX721 .K934 1981
Dewey No.:     641.5943 19
ISBN:          3874524760
Notes:         Photoreproduction of original published: Passau :
                  Printed by Johann Petri, 1486? Now owned by Bayerische
                  Staatsbibliothek M=E8unchen (4o Inc. s.a. 161a/3)
               Bibliography: p. x.
Subjects:      Cookery, German -- Early works to 1800.
Other authors: Ehnert, Rolf.
               Petri, Johannes, 1441-1511.
Other titles:  K=E8uchenmeisterei.
Series Entry:  Litterae (K=E8ummerle Verlag) ; Nr. 71.
Control No.:   81188708=20

Nothing about a translation there, but that doesn't mean that one doesn't
exist.

Hope this helps a little,
Duncan
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