SC - Cookbook review?

[LYN M PARKINSON]

Mordonna,

>>Any opinions on this book?  Anyone seen it, or read it?  Any good
original recipes?  Any suggestions yea or nay about buying it?

Savoring the Past; The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789,
Scribner ed.  By Barbara Ketcham Wheaton<<


I haven't tried her recipes, but she says: "Some adaptations have been
necessary, but I have stayed as close to the originals as is possible for
a cook in a modern American kitchen."   She gives 10 period French
recipes.  Since my remaining modern French is sparse, I'll let Anne-Marie
comment on Wheaton's faithfulness to the medieval/renaissance French
originals.


Most of the book is text, and includes the 17th and 18th centuries.  I
bought mine because of a good review in _Serve It Forth_, haven't gotten
too far into it, and have thrown it at the wall several times.


Get it via Interlibrary Loan, and decide if it's a 'keeper' for you.

Regards,

Allison
allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
Kingdom of Aethelmearc

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