[Sca-cooks] New Books of Possible Interest

[johnna holloway]

During the past few days I have come across
these new and recent titles that might be
of interest to members of the list. I
thought that I would play librarian and post
them, so that you could keep an eye out for
them or ask at a local library
They are:

Ken Albala
Eating Right in the Renaissance.
California Studies in Food and Culture, 2
Publication Date: February 2002
324 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 12 b/w illustrations
Clothbound: $39.95  0-520-22947-9.
Provides information on foods while
examining the wide-ranging dietary
literature of the Renaissance.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9222.html


The following titles are available from
Tempus or Arcadia publishing.
FOOD IN ROMAN BRITIAN
Author(s): JOAN ALCOCK
Series: GENERAL HISTORY
Details: TRADE PAPERBACK / 192 Pages
ISBN: 0752419242 Price: $27.99
no description given by the press.
Scholar's Bookshelf says it uses
new archaeological findings to come
up with what the basic and gourmet foods
were in Roman Britain. Illustrated.

PREHISTORIC COOKING
Author(s): JACQUI WOOD
Series: ARCHAEOLOGY
Details: TRADE PAPERBACK / 176 Pages
ISBN: 0752419439 Price: $26.99
Description:
BASED ON EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
AT THE AUTHORS WORLD-FAMOUS RESEARCH
SETTLEMENT IN CORNWALL, THIS BOOK DESCRIBES
THE INGREDIENTS OF PREHISTORIC COOKING
AND THE METHODS OF FOOD PREPARATION.
A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE LIFESTYLE OF
OUR PREHISTORIC ANCESTORS IS FOLLOWED BY
DETAILED SECTIONS (PLUS COOKBOOK-STYLE RECIPES)
ON: BREAD, DAIRY FOODS, STEWS, WATER PITS AND
HUNTING FOODS, CLAY-BAKED FOOD, THE SEASHORE MENU,
BEANS & LENTILS, HERBS & SPICES, VEGETABLES, WINE,
BEER & TEAS, SWEETS & PUDDINGS.

NOTE: I have no idea here what they mean by
"teas" in Roman Britain.

The press also offers:
QUEST FOR FOOD
Author(s): IVAN CROWE
Series: GENERAL HISTORY
Details: HARDCOVER / 258 Pages
ISBN: 0752414623 Price: $37.50

FARMERS IN PREHISTORIC BRITAIN
Author(s): FRANCIS PRYOR
Series: ARCHAEOLOGY
Details: TRADE PAPERBACK / 160 Pages
ISBN: 0752414771 Price: $24.99

 and then this one

RECREATING THE PAST
Author(s): VICTOR AMBRUS & MICK ASTON
Series: ARCHAEOLOGY
Details: TRADE PAPERBACK / 120 Pages
ISBN: 0752419099 Price: $19.99
Description:
A DRAMATIC CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BRITISH
HISTORY, AS REVEALED BY ARCHAEOLOGY.

Found at http://www.tempuspublishing.com/p02.htm

Also Penguin has republished
Sydney Mintz's Sweetness and Power: the Place
of Sugar in Modern Society in paperback
for $15.00

Johnnae llyn Lewis
Johnna Holloway