[Sca-cooks] Renaissance Recipes by Gillian Riley
Martin G. Diehl
mdiehl at nac.net
Thu Oct 24 13:35:08 PDT 2002
johnna holloway wrote:
[snip]
> Certainly her articles in Gastronomica and her
> presentations at Oxford have been first rate. Given
> that she is working on the new Oxford Companion to
> Italian Food, she seems to a food historian in good
> standing.
>
> Regarding Anahita's original query, I'd recommend
> purchase since the works are cheap, she admits that
> she loves food in art books (Intriguing, since i'm
> into art, too), and art history books in general.
> She can buy all three of the original ones for less
> than $20 which is a bargain these days. That's the
> cost of three magazines after all.
Amazon.com lists her Painters and Food books at very
as low as $3.49 used ...
Impressionist Picnics $3.49
Renaissance Recipes $5.49
Feast for the Eyes $4.98
The Dutch Table $15.95
Certainly a bargain.
> Johnna Holloway Johnnae llyn Lewis
>
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>
> BaronessaIlaria at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Mistress Jaelle of Armida says this about the book
> > in her cookbook list:
> >
> > Riley, Gillian. RENAISSANCE RECIPES. Pomegranate
> > Artbooks. 1993. Pictures involving food and
> > redacted recipes to go along with the picture.
> > No original recipes are given. Some of the
> > pictures are useful, but I have some doubts about
> > some of the recipes, although without seeing the
> > originals it is hard to tell. NOT RECOMMENDED.
In that why not ask her (through her publisher) for
that information?
After all, if we make a case for including that
information, she might publish it.
Vincenzo
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Martin G. Diehl
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