SC - When planning a feast ....

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The last paragraph interests me.  How much of that is true and how much is it
marketing strategy?  If it's online for free we are less likely to spend money
on the new volume, so it's worth their while to bash the competition.

Cynically, Selene

TG wrote:

> There is a new edition and English translation of the Buch von guter
> Speise:
>
> Melitta Weiss Adamson (ed.):
> Daz buoch von guoter spise (The Book of Good Food). A Study, Edition,
> and English Translation of the Oldest German Cookbook. Krems 2000.
> (Medium Aevum quotidianum, Sonderband IX)
> ISBN: 3-90 1094 12 1
> Price: Austrian Shillings 150,-- plus shipping
>
> The introductory study deals with the owner of the Wuerzburg codex, the
> codex itself, the cookbook, the cuisine, and the manuscript tradition of
> the recipes. The edition gives not only the text of the Wuerzburg codex,
> but also the parallel recipes from a Dessau codex of the 15th century.
>
> In her review of other editions, the author lists numerous errors of the
> internet translation of the Buch von guter Speise (p. 50-52) and
> concludes:
> "Sadly, the two versions of the _Book of Good Food_ which are today most
> widely available, are those of the lowest quality. Maurer-Constant's
> edition and Alia Atlas' translation on the Internet spread more false
> information on the oldest German cookbook than any other edition or
> translation published to date" (p. 52).
>