SC - Needed--someone to replace the Known World Handbook recipe collection

[david friedman]

I was just looking at a copy of the Known World Handbook, and noted 
that, at least as of the 1992 (I think) edition, it still had the 
original article on doing a medieval feast. The article asserts that 
it is giving medieval recipes, but the assertion is false--it is 
pretty clear, reading them, that they are a mix of ethnic recipes and 
things based (sometimes loosely--as when allspice is used in what 
probably started out as funges) on period originals. Sources are not 
given.

I suggest that one of the experienced people on this list, perhaps 
Adamantius, should get in touch with whoever is currently in charge 
of the Handbook and offer to replace that article with a more "up do 
date" (i.e. correct) one.

I should add that the Handbook also has an article on working from 
period recipes by Melisande de Belvoir which I assume (I haven't read 
it recently, but know her) is good.
David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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