SC - Re: sca-cooks Polish manuscripts & future title (drool)

[Devra at aol.com]

After the discussion a while ago on this, I thought people might be 
interested in William Woys Weaver's statement in his article about Maria 
Dembinska in the most recent PPC: "In fact, there are no manuscript recipes 
surviving from medieval Poland...."

This is a great issue, by the way.  It also has a biblography of Danish cook 
books (1616-1800.)

Further, in Andrew Dalby's article on mastic, he refers in a footnote to   
"Andrew Dalby, Flavours of Byzantium, Prospect Books, forthcoming."  Since Mr 
Dalby is the author of Siren Feasts and Classical Cooking, as well as a new 
book, Dangerous Taste: The Story of Spices, this is both hopeful and 
tantalizing.  Unfortunately, Flavours of Byzantium is NOT on the list of 
forthcoming books at the back of PPC, so its projected pub date 
is..um..unclear.  *sigh*
Devra the Baker



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