[Sca-cooks] New Anglo-Saxon Foods Book

[Johnna Holloway]

I came across this new title and thought I would pass it on:


  Food in Anglo-Saxon England
  by Debby Banham.
  ISBN: 0752429094 paperback  16.95 pounds
  Published by Tempus in the UK in February 2004.

  176               75 b&w illustrations and 25 colour

  Description: 
  Food in Anglo-Saxon England tells the story of what people ate and
  drank in England before the changes that have made our diet so
  sophisticated, varied and, paradoxically, homogeneous. Only very
  high-value goods such as spices and wine were imported into England at
  this time, so people were dependent upon native foods. This
  extensively illustrated book paints a vivid picture of the Anglo-Saxon
  diet, and includes recipes and a reconstruction of a typical
  Anglo-Saxon meal. Debby Banham is a higher education teacher and
  researcher,and specialises in medicine, diet and agriculture in
  Anglo-Saxon England. She lives in Cambridge.

  I did some searching and turned up that Dr. Banham helps with projects
  such as this work done with the  Institute for the Historical Study of
  Language
  Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey.

  --- ASPNS Bibliography 6: Agriculture & Food History


  http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/ihsl/projects/ASPNS/bib6.htm

  She also teaches some courses at Cambridge University.

  Amazon UK lists the book as being available in 4-6 weeks which
  indicates that
  they may have missed their publication target.


http://www.tempus-publishing.com/home.asp is the UK site.
Tempus in the US may be found at:
http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/
They don't have a US date listed yet, but the UK stuff does come over
eventually.

Thought you all might find it interesting.

Johnnae llyn Lewis