[Sca-cooks] News story on Malloch Rare Book Room of the New York Academy of Medicine

[Susan Laing]

This was in today's New York times online -
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/nyregion/thecity/02rare.html?ex=1105333200
&en=4b9ff10fb98af94e&ei=5070

You need to be a registered member to access it (registration is free) but
the "relevant to the cooks list" bit is the following snippet -

"No, Ms. Mandelbaum and her associate Arlene Shaner would rather direct you
to the main event, the books - to the "cookery" section, say, formed in part
because of the herbal remedies old cookbooks provide. There you can find
what Ms. Mandelbaum describes as "arguably the oldest known cookbook in the
West." It's a second-century Roman text that ninth-century German monks
copied with pen and ink on animal skins at the monastery at Fulda in the
time of Charlemagne. "They seemed to like to eat elaborate birds, like
peacocks," Ms. Shaner said of the Romans, "and to drink spiced wine."

Sounds rather interesting!

Mari de Paxford