SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes

[david friedman]

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/