[Sca-cooks] _A Medieval Feast_ by Aliki

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

I love this book.  I had a copy for years, and had pictures of a cockentrice
I did tucked in the dust jacket.  That copy went missing several years ago,
much to my displeasure.  Last fall, one of the parents of students where I'm
teaching (not my students, but she knew I was doing the Middle Ages class)
brought me a copy and said she didn't know why she had it, but thought I
might be able to use it better.  Yay!  I still have copies of those pictures
as well, so I'm back pretty much where I started.
Congrats on your book, and your demo sounds great!
Chrsitianna

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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:34 PM
To: Cooks within the SCA; East Kingdom Cooks Guild
Subject: [Sca-cooks] _A Medieval Feast_ by Aliki


Ok, I now have in my little hot hands a paperback copy of
<b><i>A Medieval Feast</I> written and illustrated by Aliki</B>
(HarperTrophy, pb $6.99). This is a book aimed at ages 7 to 11, unpaged,
illustrated in color drawings. These are somewhat medieval in style and
conciously imitative of the familiar illuminations we cooks pore over;
but the illustrations are  modern children's-book rather than
illumination in style.
The information provided about the preparations for the feast, the
cooking and the food, and the day to day life are in fact completely
right. Details in the 'frames' around some of the illustrations show
very nice images of the animals and foods to be served. I especially
treasure the looks on the faces of King, Queen and Bishop when presented
with one more subtlety (it's clear they are VERY full already...)
This book is great. I want to do a demo based around it, with Redon's
<I>The Medieval Feast</I> and maybe a copy of the book of images from
the Lutterel psalter as backup.

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