SC - question about tomorrow's meeting 3/17

[Decker, Terry D.]

You might try looking for it on Addall.com...they will probably find you a lower price for the book.  Or ask Lady Devra...that's where I got mine, though I don't remember what I paid for it!

Kiri

grizly at mindspring.com wrote:

> Poong wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I would like to get the opinion of people who have Terence
> > Scully's Neapolitan Cuisine. (At $47.50 I need some assurances!)
> >
> > To me, when I read The Medieval Kitchen, I wanted to make almost
> > every recipe. When I read Early French Cookery I found it
> > interesting from an academic point of view, but it didn't make me
> > want to run into my kitchen.
> >
> > Which one would you say Neapolitan Cuisine resembles?
>
> Greetings,
>
> If that is US Dollars, my opinion is that someone is trying to club you like a kosher duck for a piquant orange sauce.  If you cannot find it cheaper yet, it may be worth waiting to find a used copy; I got mine a year or more back when it first came out for in the range of $30 US.
>
> As far as what it is and resembles, it is a book of original Medieval Italian text recipes followed by the English translations.  In addition, is a pretty interesting and informative discussion of the manuscripts and the text found therein.  There is a section of commentary on each individual entry as well.  A great volume for peopl who can derive recipes from the text . . . no worked out recipes.  I recommend it for the collection, but you'll need to decide the priority based on need for worked out recipes, interest in commentary and usefulness of that cuisine.  The first 8 recipes I cooked out of it got absolute raves last Spring that people still talk about today . . . that makes it worth my investment so far :o)
>
> niccolo difrancesco
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