SC - Buch von guter Speise: new edition with English translation and Ruzzige cakes

[Cathy Harding]

Thomas,
Do you actually have this volume yet? I'd be interested in what this new
translation  does to the Ruzzige cake recipe (in light of the conversation
from early in October)

Maeve


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Subject:	SC - Buch von guter Speise: new edition with English translation

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).

Th.




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