[Sca-cooks] More about Leeds Collection was Chinese Cookery Books

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Sat Aug 28 07:28:12 PDT 2004


The collection at Leeds is of course what led C. Anne Wilson
into food history. They've been strong since the 1960's.

Johnnae

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

>But looking at other items listed under "Cookery"
>they seem to have several 16th Century copies of 
>Apicius.  They have several other 16th Century
>books listed under "Cookery" that aren't about
>cookery. 
>
>I suppose I shouldn't ask this, but why are
>you going to this library?  What do they have
>in their collection that interests you?
>
>Huette
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