SC - New prospects from Prospect Books

[Christina Nevin]

Saluti everyone!

I have just recieved my Prospect Books newsletter, and thought to repeat the
following news snippets to you all:

"Other scholarly editions promised are a new edition and translation of and
extensive commentary on APICIUS by Sally Grainger and Chris Grocock. This
will not be ready for a while, but should be significant. Andrew Dalby is
also working on THE FLAVOURS OF BYZANTIUM, a translation of certain texts
relating to food and a discussion of the place of food in Byzantine
society."

There will also be a series, written by Alan Davidson, Helen Saberi and
others - overall title THE ENGLISH KITCHEN, which will be "commented
anthologies of recipes from the glory days of English cookery" on particular
classes of dish or ingredient i.e. Trifle, Soup, Puddings, etc, as well as
volumes mainly centered on C.18th cookery (a bit late for us, but
nonetheless, I expect they will be very interesting). Prospect are also
reprinting William Rabisha's THE WHOLE BODY OF COOKERY DISSECTED (1661), but
will be doing the 1682 edition. Also printing the next Oxford proceedings
FOOD AND MEMORY, and the Leeds Symposium on FOOD AND RITES OF PASSAGE.

"The much awaited MEDIEVAL ARAB COOKERY, being papers by Maxime Rodinson and
Charles Perry, as well as a reprint of A.J.Arberry's translation of the
Baghdad cookery book and Charles Perry's new translation of Kitab Wasf
al-At'ima al-Mu'tada, is still in progress. It has been subject to much
delay for which I apologize, but it will appear."

So it appears those of us waiting for MAC, will, alas, have to hold our
breaths a little longer.

Apologies if someone has already informed you of all this, I have been busy
in Real Life and not been on-list since May - but it's good to be back!

Al Servizio Vostro, e del Sogno
Lucrezia

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