[Sca-cooks] More new titles

[johnna holloway]

Here are some more new titles coming out this fall. Some are rather 
weird-- The new Shakespeare title is due out in October.


The Pharaoh's Feast: From Pit-Boiled Roots to Pickled Herring, Cooking 
Through the Ages with 100 Simple Recipes
by Oswald Rivera
ISBN: 156858282x Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows  October 2003 
Paperback 256 pages
"recreates ingredient lists and recipes to allow modern cooks to prepare 
historic delights from Esau's biblical mess of pottage to contemporary 
pasta primavera." Packed with fun facts, this culinary history includes 
such treats as a seven-course dinner from King Srenika’s royal bash in 
first millennial Indus Valley, Colonial New England’s Johny Cakes and 
the modern era's meatloaf. B/white illus. accompany this lively history 
of cooking."

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Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People
by Linda Civitello
ISBN: 0471202800 Subtitle: A History of Food and People Publisher: John 
Wiley & Sons  August 2003  384 pages
"examines the relationship between food and history, from prehistoric 
times to the 21st century." Amazon has sample sections up to examine."

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A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told 
Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances
by Laura Schenone
ISBN: 0393016714 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company October 2003  416 pages

  "Recounts how American women have gathered, cooked, and prepared food 
for lovers, strangers, and family throughout the ages. ... the shared 
history of all American women."
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I should also mention that C. Anne Wilson's classic Food and Drink in 
Britain is out now again in paperback. Borders in Ann Arbor had it 
yesterday. It was announced as 2001 and came out in 2003.


Johnnae llyn Lewis