[Sca-cooks] Period sources

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Dec 3 21:28:20 PST 2002


Brighid ni Chiarain commented:
> On 3 Dec 2002, at 16:48, Phil Anderson wrote:
>> Can anyone aim me at a convenient on-line list of period recipe
>> sources? I'm after a chronological list if one exists. A local
>> cooking publication just claimed that Platina is the earliest cookbook,
>> and I'd like to set them straight at reasonable length :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Edward Long-hair
>
> ::snort::  Not even close.  Platina is 1475.  Even if you want to omit
> Apicius and anything from outside Europe, there's still
<snip>

Perhaps what the site said was that Platina was the earliest,
*printed* cookbook. Would that be correct?


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