[Sca-cooks] originals and redactions, was "All the King's Cooks"

[Terry Decker]

The definition of redaction is one of those subjects which has come up
before.

In terms of period cookbooks, it refers to the process of editing and
revising the work into a more usable form for a modern audience, which may
include editing the recipes to a more modern standard.  I prefer the words
adaptation and interpretation as more accurately describing the modern
preparation or editing of historic recipes.

Bear

>
> I have since learned that my definition of redaction was
>incorrect.  Figures!  I had never heard the word before it came up in a
>SCA context.  Never heard it in my non-SCA foodways experience.  I
>checked the OED the other day and the word's current use is specifically a
>text reproduction of process.  Important lesson here, learn the meaning
>of a new word before you use it? :)
>
>--
>Ron Carnegie <r.carnegie at verizon.net>