[Sca-cooks] Earliest Viking area post-Viking cookbooks

david friedman ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Mon Oct 27 09:44:27 PST 2003


>I am trying to compile a list of the earliest 2-3 cookbooks for the various
>Viking areas.  Since there are no actual Viking cookbooks, the earliest ones
>seem to be at around 50-100+ years later or more.  Lists of archeological
>findings would be helpful as well.
>
>Some are:
>
>1100's-maybe: Libellus De Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern Cookery Book
>(Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series), V. 222.)
>by Rudolf Grewe (Editor), Constance B. Hieatt (Editor), which has been found
>in Danish, Icelandic, & Low German.

Note that according to Grewe this is a southern european cookbook, 
even though the surviving daughter manuscripts of the lost original 
are all from northern Europe.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/



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