RE [Sca-cooks] Ideal cookbook collection?

[Christina Nevin]

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Saluti!

Firstly, congratulations on getting married! And here is my top ten:

1. FRIEDMAN, David & COOK, Elizabeth  Cariadoc's Miscellany (see Anne's
comments re availability)
2. RENFROW, Cindy  Take a Thousand Eggs or More Vol 1 & 2. 2nd edition,
March 1998. Privately printed ISBN: 0962859842
3. PLATINA  De Honesta Voluptate: On Right Pleasure  MILHOUSE, Mary Ella
(transl.)  Pegasus Press Jan 1999. ISBN 1889818127
4. SCULLY, Terence  The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages   August 1997
Boydell & Brewer; ISBN: 0851154301
5. REDON, Odile et al.  The Medieval Kitchen : Recipes from France and Italy
June 1998, Univ of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226706842
6. ANONYMOUS  Curye on Inglysch HIEATT, Constance B. & BUTLER, Sharon.
(transcription) HIEATT, Constance B. & BUTLER, Sharon. (transcription)
London, Oxford Early English Text Society, 1985.
7. BLACK, Maggie  The Medieval Cookbook May 1996, Thames & Hudson; ISBN:
0500015481 HB
8. VIVENDIER  The "Vivendier" SCULLY, Terence (transl.) Prospect Books 1997;
ISBN: 0907325815
9. de LEONE, MICHAEL Das büch von güter spise  WEISS ADAMSON, Melitta
(transl.) (orig. German 1345-1454)  Medium Aevum Quotidianum Sonder Band IX,
Krems 2000; ISBN: 3-90 1094 12 1
10. WILSON, C.Anne  Food and Drink in Britain from the Stone Age to recent
times   Penguin Books, 1973, reprint 1984  ISBN 0-14-046.546-4

Admittedly only five of these are medieval - three are Renaissance and a
couple (#4 & 10) aren't actually cookbooks, they're foodways books, but they
will teach you an awful lot about the history, methods and reasoning, which
in turn will make you a better cook. Honest! [grin]

If you want a bit more detail on each book, rather than reiterate what I've
said before, here's a link to my cookbook reviews (which includes links to
amazon.com et al).

http://www.thorngrove.net/athenaeum/cookbook.htm
<http://www.thorngrove.net/athenaeum/cookbook.htm>

If you would like, I can also send you a copy of the 2 Anglo-Norman
Cookbooks (which is one of my favorite cuisines). Just send me your
snailmail.

ciao
Lucrezia


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