[Sca-cooks] Updating the SCA Cookbook List

[Stefan li Rous]

Johnnae llyn Lewis said:
> Someone mentioned to me last month that they
> were interested in knowing about early SCA cookbooks.
> She was talking about and interested in those
> that were written by members of the SCA and sold
> at SCA events. (Not Pleyn Delit or Fabulous Feasts)
>
> I have several that I have bought through the years which
> I could mention to her. I also checked
>  out the Florilegium where
> Stefan has a file  on the
> topic. cookbooks-SCA-msg - 9/29/00
>
> Cookbooks and cooking periodicals written by people in the SCA.
>
> I read through this file and noted that there are lots of titles
> that are missing. Both older publications and new ones aren't listed.
>  Also cookery newsletters like Ye Medieval Spread and Countess Alys'
> Confectioner's Newsletter aren't listed either.


I do have about 20K of new stuff to add to this file when I can get around
to it, but yes there are very likely some gaps. I'm pretty much limited to
what people post in messages that I happen to see or that other people send
to me.

Of course, if someone would like to compile a bibliography similar to
Jaelle's, I'd love to have that.

cookbooks-bib     (40K)  6/ 9/01    Cookbook bib. by Mistress Jaelle of Armida


I'd appreciate it even more if that person kept it up to date with occasional
updates. Speaking of which, Mistress Jaelle has done another update of her
bibliography and has promised me a copy soon, so expect to see that in the
Florilegium in the future.

.
> I don't suppose that Stefan will turn down more information
> for his files, especially if we can provide him with titles that he
> doesn't
> cover from those long ago days when the SCA was much younger.

This particular file was meant to give information on cookbooks that were
easily available to SCA folks and wasn't meant to be a history of SCAdian
authored cookbooks. If the older, not so easily obtained cookbooks are
clearly marked that way, then that would work. Or if there is enough I
could create another file that viewed these cookbooks more from an SCA
historical aspect than as cooking resources.

Stefan the obscure, err the recorder of the obscure cookbooks.
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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