Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] Galloping Goulash.... (fwd)

[Huette von Ahrens]

The three books that Gene Anderson mentioned are:

Lang, George, 1924-
  [Cuisine of Hungary]
  George Lang's cuisine of Hungary / George Lang
; with a new introduction by the author. -- New
York : Wings Books ; Avenel, N.J. : Distributed
by Random House Value Pub., 1994.
     xvi, 495 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
     ISBN 0517118688 : $12.99

Kovi, Paul.
  [Erdelyi lakoma. English]
  Paul Kovi's Transylvanian cuisine / by Paul
Kovi ; edited by Kim Honig ; translated from
Hungarian by Clara Gyorgyey. -- 1st ed. -- New
York : Crown Publishers, c1985.
               xix, 428 p. ; 25 cm.
               ISBN 0517556987

Dembinska, Maria.
 [Konsumpcja zivnosciowa w Polsce
sredniowiecznej. English]
 Food and drink in medieval Poland :
rediscovering a cuisine of the past / Maria
Dembinska ; translated by Magdalena Thomas ;
revised and adapted by William Woys Weaver. --
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
1999.
xxiii, 227 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
 ISBN 0812232240 (alk. paper)

Huette

--- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> Jadwiga was asking me about any references for
> Hungarian foods, so I sent
> the question along to Gene Anderson, and this
> was his reply. I'm sending it
> along because I know the question has come up
> on the List before, and he has
> what appear to be some interesting references
> for the cuisine of a less
> known area.
>
> Phlip
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Anderson"
> To: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: [Sca-cooks] Galloping
> Goulash.... (fwd)
>
>
> > The best, and indeed the only, book with much
> history of Hungarian food in
> > English is George Lang's THE CUISINE OF
> HUNGARY, which is superb.  (I may
> > not have the title quite right, but that will
> get you there.)   The great
> > Hungarian chef Karoly Gundel wrote quite a
> bit--his history is shaky (but
> > his recipes are nice).  There is also an
> excellent
> > history/ethnography/cookbook of Transylvanian
> food, but I don't have the
> > ref with me.
> > Anyone interested in the food of that part of
> the world should read
> William
> > Woys Weaver's translation and additions to a
> Polish history of food by a
> > late Polish lady--again the ref is at home so
> I don't remember, but call
> up
> > William Woys Weaver on amazon.com or any
> other such source and look for
> the
> > Polish book. It's possibly the best food
> history in English.  Certainly
> > basic for East Europe, especially the
> medieval period.
> > There is a good deal of scattered stuff on
> Russian food out there, but I
> > don't know a single source that's really
> good.
> > Lurking in my files somewhere is an odd paper
> on the great carp pond fad
> in
> > late medieval Bohemia (to 16th century or
> so). In the middle ages they got
> > the idea of carp raising from China via
> Russia.  Eventually a competition
> > surfaced among the lords to see who could
> have the biggest and best carp
> > pond.  Odd way to compete for status, but
> people will do anything.  Maybe
> > the Hungarians got into this too.  Who knows.
> But they sure cook
> freshwater
> > fish superbly.
> > best--Gene Anderson
>
>
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