Rant on research; was, Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Coffyns

[Martin G. Diehl]

"Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:
> 
> Also sprach Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise:

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> >How long ago was it that Peter Brears' _All the King's 
> >Cooks_ was panned on this list for NOT HAVING ORIGINALS 
> >of the recipes, never mind the goldmine of information 
> >about how the tudor kitchens worked?
> 
> Again, I don't recall that it was. I think people said 
> they wished he'd included the original recipes. 

I searched my SCA-Cooks eMail folder and found that I have 
70 messages with that title as either subject or text.  

I didn't read all of the 68 old messages, but there was 
quite a bit of back and forth discussion about including 
v. not including original source ... in order to check the 
accuracy of the readaction as printed.  

Some voiced the opinion (YOU know who you are <g>) that 
they would never use and/or trust a reference that omitted 
the original text.  

The SCA-Cooks archives should help with reserching this 
authorship question ... see August and September of 2003.  

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> Adamantius

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

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