[Sca-cooks] Book Questions...

[Stefan li Rous]

  Urtatim asked:
> I recently picked up a used copy of
> The Food Chronology
> by James Trager
>
> It is organized by century, each broken down into years, with
> significant food, economic, and political tidbits with each. It
> begins with very early pre-history (pre-human, in fact) not broken by
> year :-) The volume i have ends with 1995. The book is 783 pages
> long, with 109 pages devoted to pre-1601, 60 pages of index and no
> bibliography. It attempts to cover the whole world, but i assume is
> stronger on Europe and North America.
>
> I wonder if anyone has any opinions about its quality / usefulness
> (opinions? hah! this list?)

If you go to the top page of the Florilegium and plug "The Food 
Chronology" into the search engine there, you will get 34 hits. While 
some are duplicates and some are simply references, a number are 
reviews and commentary about the book. In a quick review, the cautions 
and the criticisms out-weigh the positive comments.

Stefan
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