[Sca-cooks] Irish was "Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England"

[Johnna Holloway]

For Irish---I recommend Brid Mahon's book---
Land of Milk & Honey: The Story of Traditional Irish Food & Drink
   
Hardcover  /  September 1998  /  1856352102
Check out her footnotes.
Also check out the notes to--- Cathal Cowan and Regina Sexton's
Ireland's Traditional Foods. An Exploration of Irish Local & Typical 
Foods & Drinks.
1997.  1-901138-04-6

I also like the Feast and Famine Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920 by

Leslie Clarkson, Professor Emeritus of Social History, The Queen's 
University of Belfast,, and Margaret Crawford, Senior Research Fellow, 
The Queen's University of Belfast
Oxford University Press.
Price: £40.00 (Hardback)
0-19-822751-5
Publication date: 15 November 2001
336 pages, numerous graphs and tables, 234mm x 156mm

The authors explore the evolution of Irish diets over the centuries, in 
the process putting the role of the potato and the history of the 
famines into their proper perspectives.

Irish Books and Media is one source for these.

After reading the books---then you can start through all the Irish folklore,
folk history, anthropology, archaeology, ethnology etc. papers that are 
out there. And there are hundreds of those.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Cera Chonaill wrote:

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>I'm researching 12/13th century Irish cooking and have to get references to
>food types and uses from references that are not cookbooks (they just don't
>seem to exist). It will help to understand why these interpretation from
>references such as the medical usage are considered not to be as accurate as
>others might be.
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