[Sca-cooks] Nicole Crossley-Holland

[Mary Morman]

I don't know about "mixed opinions" as Johnna says, I'd say that Nicole 
Crossley-Holland's Living and Dining in Medieval Paris is just downright 
AWFUL.  The woman's scholarship on her search for the "real" identity of 
Le Menagier is so garbled that I refuse to have anything to do with any 
other research or opinions she presents.  She has an idee fixee about Le 
Menagier and goes through all sorts of peregrinations of backwards logic 
to prove that what she wants to be true is indeed true.  Bad book. 
 Don't go near it.

Elaina