[Sca-cooks] Book - The Medieval Kitchen

[Alex Clark]

At 12:01 AM 10/17/2003 -0700, Ignia il Nomade wrote:
>I was reading a review on cookbooks and this one caught my eye 
>(http://eat.epicurious.com/eat/cookbooks/index.ssf/?/eat/cookbooks/1998/medieval.html). 
>Does anyone have it/can give me a better review than the one on the site? 
>Is it worth my money or should I save up for something else (like, say, 
>the Foodlover's Atlas of the World)?

It seems to be a good book. It has a modern English version of the original 
recipe together with the authors' interpretation of the recipe, and then 
transcriptions of all the original recipes in the back. I've hardly tried 
using their interpretations (the books is a kind of new acquisition), but 
they seem to be fairly accurate by comparison with the originals.

My main problem with it is that it sometimes fills in gaps in the original 
recipes with things that I suspect are a little too modern, such as golden 
delicious apples and pa^te brise'e.

Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon