SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes
    CBlackwill@aol.com 
    CBlackwill at aol.com
       
    Sat Jun 10 13:26:20 PDT 2000
    
    
  
At 12:49 PM -0400 6/10/00, CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
>I see.  You are referring to commercially printed books, and not, let's say,
>The Book of Kells type manuscripts, which are pretty unique.  That makes
>sense, then.
I am referring to printed books, commercially or otherwise, as 
opposed to manuscripts--handwritten books. The earliest European 
manuscript cookbook, so far as I know, is Apicius, which predates 
Platina, believed to be the first printed cookbook, by a thousand 
years or so.
David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
    
    
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