[Sca-cooks] A Noble Boke off Cookry - copy available

[Elaine Koogler]

You might want to consider, if you don't already have it, getting 
"Virginia Hospitality", published by the Junior League of Hampton Roads, 
Inc. I have a very old copy of the book...one my mother-in-law gave me 
back when Jim and I had only been together a few years. More recently, I 
acquired a copy to give as a gift from the gift shop at Colonial 
Williamburg. It is the ONLY cookbook that I have always had success with 
recipes I've used. In fact, it's so good that I am not afraid to take 
dishes from it to dinner parties without testing the recipe first. It 
contains recipes for a number of wonderful breads, a Brunswick stew 
that's to die for and a number of traditional southern/Virginia dishes.

Kiri

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

> Barbara Benson wrote:
>
>>> hello, the list!
>>>
>>> I've had an e-mail from someone who found on my website the citation 
>>> for
>>> Mrs Alexander Napier's 1882 reprint of the Noble Boke off Cookry. 
>>> She has
>>> a copy of this, i.e. the 1882 print, which she'd like to sell. She 
>>> has no
>>> idea how much it's worth, and, frankly, nor do I - I can find no 
>>> copiesfor
>>>
>>> sale online, presumably they're all being sat on by libraries. The
>>> photocopy of this edition is in Cariadoc's collection, but if you'd 
>>> likean
>>>
>>> original, or if you can advise her on what the thing is actually worth,
>>> please do contact her! e-mail below.
>>>
>>> JdH
>>>
> Google comes up with a number of citations for the book on Medieval 
> Cooking sites, mostly but not all SCA, and in some collections. I may 
> make her an offer on my own.
>
> Serena da Riva points out:
>
>> If you search on abeBooks: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookSearch 
>> for
>> Alexander Napier you will get 7 results of several different books, 
>> both by
>> Alexander and Mrs Alexander. They start at $12 for a 1900 book and go 
>> up to
>> $243 for a book with a bookplate from an identifiable historical figure.
>> None of these books are the one under discussion, but it may give her a
>> starting point.
>>
>> I would reccomend to her that she go to a rare book store and discuss it
>> with them if she truly wants to know how much it is worth. I think 
>> she may
>> be a bit disappointed.
>>
> I browsed the high-ticket items in the cookbook section of ABE and 
> found many interesting things. Possibly the most immediately important 
> thing I learned was that I really, really need to catalog my 
> collection [and check for autographs], some of them are actually worth 
> real money. In some cases, I knew it, like the probably-complete 
> collection of M.F.K. Fisher, but others that I've just happened to 
> have since they were new are now apparently sought-after. Who knew?
>
> By The Way: I collect collections, like those home-town, church or 
> school fundraiser cookbooks. Anyone on this list who has one to sell, 
> please let me know, I am a notoriously soft touch for a fundraiser. 
> Besides, if there is even one gem amongst the re-re-re-copies of 
> seven-layer dip and jello salad, I consider it a worthwhile culinary 
> purchase.
>
> Selene Colfox
> selene at earthlink.net
>
>
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