SC - Re: sources of sources

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/11/98 4:17:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:

<< You need to consider whether the cookbooks of which you are speaking are
 actually books published at the time or are manuscript cookbooks.  Many of
 the "cookbooks" we reference are actually reprints of a cook's personal
 notebook, found, footnoted, and published long after they were originally
 written >>

This is correct. According to The Medieval Kitchen (Yes! I finally got it.
:-)) Le Manegier was originally written on a parchment scroll.  

Many times manuscripts were commissioned by a noble for his personal
libraries. Such manuscripts were handed down generation to generation. Most of
the published copies of these rare manuscripts were printed in the 1800's,
thereby giving us a glimpse into the world of medieval cookery.


Ras
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