Fwd: Re: Fwd: SC - Book on Polish Cooking

[Liam Fisher]

My friend Jadwiga asked me to post this here as well because I
sent her info on the Old Polish book.

Cadoc

>Thanks, Liam! Could you do me a favor and post this back?
>
>"Old Polish Traditions ..." has some good information, but because of the
>lack of footnotes, and the fact that the recipes are not documented, it's
>not the greatest source. If you're interested  in the subject, please DO
>get _Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the
>  Past._ Maria Dembinska, revised and adapted by William Woys Weaver.
>(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1999) It is not a _great_
>source, especially as the recipes included are re-created (not redacted)
>and don't include great information about the sources, but the text, which
>is very informative, far surpasses anything else out there on the subject
>of Central European cooking in the middle ages.
>
>FYI: there's a bunch of other helpful books listed in the handout I did
>for a class on Russian and Polish food, at
>http://www.lehigh.edu/~jahb/jadwiga/slavicfood.html
>(feel free to send me comments, this was the first draft of the handout
>and it needs LOTS of work)
>
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
>disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>	"You wake up to realize your only friend... has never been
>          yourself or anyone who cared in the end..." -- Jewel Kilcher
>

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