[Sca-cooks] Prehistoric Cooking Review

[johnna holloway]

I have a review of this in press for Serve It Forth.
I sent it in 1 May 2002. I wrote then:

This is an oddball book, but one that may have wide appeal
 to members of the Society. Jacqui Wood is a woman on a mission
 to recreate the life of prehistoric Britain. ....
Prehistoric Cooking is so unusual that one almost suspects
 a tie-in between this volume and the publication of
 Jean Auel's latest tome.
To achieve her goals Wood has spent the past quarter
 century creating a Middle Bronze Age village on her home
 property near Truro in Cornwall. Prehistoric Cooking
 is based upon her personal attempts to document and
 describe the ingredients and probable food preparation
 methods that were available to the Pre-Roman era Briton.
....
Despite its problems and many readers may well decide that
 the publisher is to blame for the final presentation of
 the book and most of the errors, Prehistoric Cooking has
 considerable value and much to offer the careful reader
 who wants to experiment with this suggested "cuisine" of
 early Britain. It is after all late spring and the summer
 season is upon us and with it the promise of good weather
 and camping events where some of these recipes could be
 tried and sampled outdoors.
 "Clay-baked duck with blackberries" anyone?

By Johnna H. Holloway
1 May 2002



jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>
> Book review from _British Archaelogy_:
> (october 2002)
> Prehistoric Cooking
> Jacqui Wood
> Tempus £15.99
> ISBN 0-7524-19743-9 pb
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