[Sca-cooks] Alan Davidson

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:
>I was perusing the Los Angeles Times food section
>this evening after dinner, when I came upon an
>article written by Charles Perry, called Alan
>Davidson, An Appreciation.
>
>In this article, it states that Alan Davidson
>died on Dec. 2, 2003.  Mr. Perry talks about all
>of Mr. Davidson's wonderful achievements and
>mentions that the family had given out a little
>booklet to all who attended the memorial with all
>
>of Alan Davidson's favorite recipes. 
>
>I don't recall anyone mentioning this on this
>list before and with Adamantius' mention earlier
>today of a planned Oxford Companion to American
>Food, I began to wonder if anyone else on this
>list knew of this terrible loss.

I certainly didn't know. That's a great shame. I'd heard from Andrew 
Smith (the food historian and tomato authority, not the SCAdian of 
the same name) that that was what he'd been working on, but that was 
probably in September or so.

Adamantius