[Sca-cooks] Intro

[Apollonia Margherita]

The Florilegium is a wonderful place...

My persona is Italian, so I am interested in Florentine cooking....I've seen
several thing I need now.....

Apollonia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark S. Harris" <stefan at texas.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Intro


> Greetings Apllonia,
>
> Welcome to SCA-Cooks!
>
>  >Unfortunately I am not able to make it to Pennsic this year, and I don't
>  >know of any cooks guilds, although I haven't really looked.  [:)]   I
like
>  >cooking mundanely, and I want to try medieval cooking, but the only book
my
>  >local library has is Fabulous Feasts....
>
> While some of the introductory material in that book is good, the
> recipes are of dubious quality and source. For more on this book
> see this file in the Florilegium:
> Fabulous-Fsts-msg (18K) 12/25/01    Reviews and comments on Madeleine
Pelner
>                                         Cosman's "Fabulous Feasts".
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/Fabulous-Fsts-msg.html
>
> While you are there in the FOOD-BOOKS section you might want to look
> at some of the comments on various period cookbooks. I would also
> recommend the several annotated bibliographies there such as:
> cookbooks-bib     (40K)  6/ 9/01    Cookbook bib. by Mistress Jaelle of
Armida.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/cookbooks-bib.html
>
> You can find many of these books through these merchants:
> merch-cookbks-msg (10K)  8/31/99    Merchants selling period cookbooks.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/merch-cookbks-msg.html
>
>  >Anyone know any good books I can ILL?
> And there is also this file:
> online-ckbks-msg  (23K)  4/11/01    Online versions of period cookbooks.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/online-ckbks-msg.html
>
> I also recommend Master Cariadoc's Miscellany for recipes, which often
> include his and Elizabeth's redactions. There is also a version of this
> online. I think the address to get the paper copy as well as the address
> of the current webpage can be found in this file:
> cookbooks-SCA-msg (27K)  9/29/00    Cookbooks written by people in the
SCA.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/cookbooks-SCA-msg.html
>
> And this file might also help:
> cb-novices-msg    (13K) 10/14/98    Cookbooks for those new to medieval
cooking.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/cb-novices-msg.html
>
> However, be aware that these are mostly the original period cookbooks or
> translations of them. You may find that a difficult place to start. I
> think most people are better off looking at some cookbooks which have
> some example recipe redactions. Others, such as Master Cariadoc, disagree
> with me on this.
>
> Oh, and if the Florilegium is new to you, take a look around while
> you are there. If these several files aren't of interest, there
> are about 1500 others files that might be. :-)
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****
>
>
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