[Sca-cooks] Re: Indian cookbook

[Patrick Levesque]

On 09/03/04 11:25, "Devra at aol.com" <Devra at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 3/9/2004 9:19:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:
> 
>> Then comes the Period Indian (based on 'Food of Ancient India').
> 
> Is this a book?  Is it in print and available? (This means: can I locate and
> then sell it? It is so VERY hard to find historical cookbooks for Asia....)
>    Devra the obsessed merchant
> 


I've been Hogging a copy from McGill's Library for quite a while now (and
nobody else has requested it, luckily for me), and I fell on it by pure
chance. I know of one other person in Ealdormere who has a copy. I haven't
been able to find it in print anywhere (and I've searched a lot, although I
haven't looked for a while now)

The exact title, excuse my original error, is 'Food and Drinks in Ancient
India' by Om Prakash. Published by Munshi Ram Manohar Lal, Nai Sarak, Delhi,
India. It dates a bit (1961) but it's the only thing so far that dwelves on
period (and pre-period) Indian food exclusively.

It was originally a PhD Thesis; I haven't found any ISBN number. One day
I'll muster the courage to go and photocopy the entire thing since it
doesn't seem to be comercially available anymore.

Petru