[Sca-cooks] Renaissance Recipes by Gillian Riley

[Martin G. Diehl]

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