SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes

[david friedman]

At 2:40 AM -0400 6/10/00, CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 6/9/00 1:11:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com
>writes:
>
>  > the first printed cookbook in Europe is Platina, late
>  >  15th century.
>
>The first "surviving" printed cookbook...Let's not assume that it was the
>first, simply because it is the earliest we have access to.  After all, folks
>have been writing stuff down for a long time...

They haven't been printing in Europe for a long time, however. And 
printed books are a lot less likely to disappear than manuscripts, 
since there are generally quite a lot of copies.

So while I agree that it is possible that there was an earlier 
printed cookbook that somehow vanished without a trace, I don't think 
it is terribly likely.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/