SC - FW: Eggs + translations

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Fri May 7 19:48:42 PDT 1999


Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net wrote:

> >"...and in the seventeenth the renowned French cook Pierre Francois
> >de la Varenne wrote a cookbook containing sixty different recipes
> >for eggs." [Maybe another interesting translation project, but
> >perhaps a bit late unless there is some proof that some of these
> >recipes might date from earlier times.]

While this may be true I get a certain satisfaction in pointing out he's
earlier than Digby, even assuming that the posthumous publication of
Digby's recipes might trim 15 or 20 years off the dates... ;  ) Digby
often seems to be sort of grandfathered in because he's English.

Adamantius (neener neener neener, Kenelm!)
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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