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[James Prescott]

Khadijah said:
>      I am looking to either obtain or compile a list of the surviving ancient 
> and medieval cooking sources.  If anyone knows of such a list already present 
> somewhere, listing the book, the author (if known), the region and time 
> period, I would greatly appreciate them directing me to it.
> 
>      If no one knows of something, I would greatly appreciate the help of 
> this list in stating as many different period sources as they know of... What 
> I'm trying to do is maintain a database for myself and others.
> 
>      What I'm looking for is basically:
> 
>      Book of Dishes     al-Baghdaddi       Persian   1226
>      (available 1939 issue Journal of Islamic Culture)
> 
>      In a glance, someone can tell that they can find persian/middle eastern 
> food from a certain time period and where to go to get the source... I think 
> that if something like this doesn't exist, it would be of great help to those 
> starting out and already experienced.
> 
>      So, what do you say?

I don't know of any such source in polished form. This would be quite
a project and would require a substantial amount of time, both to create
and maintain. If you were interested in putting such a thing on the
web and maintaining it, I think we could set aside your own area in
the Florilegium for this.

In the meantime, a lot of the material for such a list is available
in the Florilegium, although in a rather raw form. 

For instance, in the FOOD-BOOKS section of the Florilegium here are
a few files that are there:
16thC-cookbk-bib  (11K)  3/ 2/00    A bibliography of 16th C. cookbooks.
cb-rv-Apicius-msg (37K)  4/20/00    Reviews of cookbooks having Apicius recipes.
cb-rv-Platina-msg (21K)  2/21/01    Reviews of cookbooks having Platina recipes.
cb-rv-Taillvt-msg  (9K)  7/14/99    Reviews of books having Taillevent's recipes
cookbooks-bib     (32K)  4/21/97    Cookbook bibliography by Jaelle of Armida.
cookbooks2-bib    (14K) 10/ 3/97    Cookbook bibliography by Stephen Bloch.
cookbooks3-bib    (20K) 10/14/98    Cookbook bibliography by Lady Allison.
cookbooks-msg     (98K)  5/11/99    Reviews of cookbooks with medieval recipes.
                                       Messages posted before September 1995.
cookbooks2-msg    (96K)  5/11/99    Reviews posted between 9/95 and 11/97.
cookbooks3-msg   (120K)  5/11/99    Reviews posted after 11/97.
  (And I've got another 200K of stuff to add to the cookbooks-msg series)
Harpstrang-cb-msg (34K) 10/19/99    The Harpestraeng cookbook. The
oldest 
                                       cookbook in the Western world.
online-ckbks-msg  (23K)  4/11/01    Online versions of period cookbooks.
p-Italy-food-bib   (9K) 12/ 1/99    Bibliographies on period Italian food.

Also, since the cookbooks-msg files were getting so large, when cookbooks
have been mentioned that were specific to a particular culture, I've
been putting them in the various files in the FOOD-BT-REGION section.
  
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