[Sca-cooks] Full list of Elizabethan cookbooks long

[Johnna Holloway]

I'm a little puzzled as to the lack of a definate list, because our source

>of materials is very much finite. Perhaps I should have phrased my question
>a little differently. Is there such a thing as a list of cookbooks that were
>published in English in 1500-1600? 
>
Yes of course there is a list already but
you can also construct your own list of Early English Printed Books 
arranged by subject heading
by simply using the Early English Short Title Catalogue which is online 
as part of RLIN. If you don't
have access to RLIN, then one can of course use the STC and Wing in 
print and the various
subject bibliographies to create your own list.

I have been maintaining my own files on this subject since the mid 
1970's. It's much easier of course
to do it now given the online catalogues and databases that are now 
available. My last list of English titles
represented several hundred hours of work.  It's currently only 
available as part of the Proceedings to
the 2002 KWBCooks Collegium. I am sure that the 2004 KWBC event will 
have copies for sale.
[Due to the amount of work that list represented, I have not made it 
available yet to the Florilegium
and I do not allow redistribution of it.] I did offer it as a session at 
RUM in February 2003.

>Is there a list of books that were
>published in languages other than English in 1500-1600 that have
>subsequently been published in English?
>Rosalyn MacGregor
>  
>
Yes, but these lists are retrospective and tend to date almost as soon 
as they are published
as more works come out all the time. PPC has published
numerous chronological lists through the years that listed these 
facsimiles and reprints of the various
titles. I tend to keep files and not lists for these titles these days. 
It's much easier to do the work online
and just print off pages for all the new titles.  I also tend to
post a note the various bibliographies that I have at hand so I know 
what has been released.
Cagle's A Matter of Taste is very good to work with and it's a bargain 
now at only $95.00.
http://www.oakknoll.com/detail.php?d_booknr=53908  It used to be over $200.

Johnnae llyn Lewis    Librarian