SC - Translation of Libro del arte de Cocina por Diego Granado,1599

Robin Carroll-Mann harper at idt.net
Sun May 7 17:39:39 PDT 2000


And it came to pass on 4 May 00,, that JLe6139523 at aol.com wrote:

> oftraquair at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> << >10 years seems to me an inordinate amount of time.
>   >>
> When a translation involves Spanish or Portuguese written before 1800, 10
> years isn't an inordinate amount of time. The language changed a great
> deal and a good number of the words used before 1800 are either
> nonexistent today or have a different meaning. 
> 
> Isabella

And Granado is a particularly massive work: over 700 recipes.  A 
decade seems quite reasonable, if one is not working on it full-time.


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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