SC - New? Book

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

Just got a new book.  Don't know much about it.  It's called "The Horizon 
Cookbook".  It's a two volume set.  One is sub-titled "Illustrated History" 
the other is "Menus and Feasts".  Copyright 1968 by American Heritage 
Publishing Company, it purports to be an "Illustrated History of Eating and 
Drinking Through the Ages."
There is an extensive list of picture credits, and a bibliography, but no 
footnotes, so their sources may not be 100% reliable, but there is some 
interesting reading here.  One of the sources listed is the Flower and 
Rosenbaum translation of De Re Cocinaria, and there is no mention of the 
Vehling.
So far I have read perhaps a third of the first volume with mixed opinions.  
There is a lot of Euro-centric pseudo-anthropology in it, not surprising 
considering the decade it was published in, but it is surprisingly even 
handed in its treatment of the Middle Ages.  I'll let you all know my opinion 
after I've read it and tested some of the recipes.
Mordonna

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