[Sca-cooks] Does anyone know anything about this book

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/19/2003 4:02:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
doc at medievalcookery.com writes:

> >I
> >don't want to bid if it's not a good source.
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ 
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> From the list archives:
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> >Traveling Dysshes review 

OH, it's for Traveling Dyshes!  I read this offline and hadn't yet gotten a 
chance to go back on and check the link.

Traveling Dishes in a bit inconsistent, in my opinion.  The beginning stuff 
about period/nonperiod foodstuffs and so forth, is pretty good, while the 
recipes themselves are a bit of a mishmosh (not surprising, as they are submitted 
by a variety of cooks) - some very good, some taken from originals but highly 
adapted, and some with no obvious medieval forebears.  I know, for example, in 
my copy that there is one recipe which claims to be a simplification of one 
from the Miscellany.  When I actually looked up the recipe of that name in the 
Miscellany, it's not the same one; the one in Traveling Dyshes is for chicken 
and the one in the Miscellany with the same name is for fish or crab, as I 
recall!  I eventually found the one they were working off of, and "simplification" 
is quite accurate, as in dropping a number of steps and ingredients, and 
probably coming up with something that really doesn't resemble the original.  It's 
good, though :-)
Now, I should mention that I have a first edition.  I have not looked closely 
at the second edition and it may or may not be better.

Brangwayna
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