[Sca-cooks] Welsh book

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        This is what it says in the Book review section of PPC 73

     "R/ Elwyn Hughes: Dysgl Bren a Dysgl Arian: Y Lolfa: 2003. ISBN 
0862436605: 317 pp., p/b, 14.95 lb
     In my studious youth, learned theses in Swedish, Finnish and Flemish 
used very kindly to include English or French precis at the back of the book. 
Quotations from these works certainly added class to your essays, for you never 
had to admit the crib. Elwyn Hughes's book is entirely in Welsh and has no 
precis. Nor does the Advance Information Sheet from the publisher.  Therefore, the 
only thing I can tell you is that the title translates into English as 
'Silver Dish or Wooden Dish: notes on the history of food in Wales.' There is an 
essay on scurvy; another on Welsh indigenous drinks such as liquor from the 
Mountain-Ash tree; a third on wild plants and their place in the diet; and that is 
about as far as I can penetrate this evidently learned and fully referenced 
work."

     Man sounds a bit peeved, doesn't he?  Well, maybe your friend can do a 
translation...
     Devra



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