SC - Russian Foods

[david friedman]

At 5:05 PM -0500 9/25/98, Jennifer D. Miller wrote:
>Beacause I am new to cooking research and in anticipation of not actually
>finding any period recipes, how do people feel about using OOP recipes if
>there just aren't any period ones to be found?

You do the best you can. So far as I know, _Domostroi_ is the nearest thing
that exists to a period Russian cookbook. So if you want to do Russian
cooking, you do your best to put together information on what it was. That
might mean archaeological information, literary information, surviving
cookbooks from cultures in contact with Russian, trying to reason back from
out of period Russian cookbooks ...  . Just make sure that people who read
your recipes or eat your feasts realize how weak the evidence you are
working on is--or some day you will be confidently told that such and such
is a genuine period Russian recipe, and after tracing it back discover that
some half baked conjecture of yours is the source.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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