[Sca-cooks]Hagen books and others

[Johnna Holloway]

I have discovered that Ann Hagen is coming out in a combined
new edition..
Anglo-Saxon Food and Drink: Production, Processing, Distribution,
and Consumption by Ann Hagen
This edition combines earlier titles: A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food and
A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink. Extensive index. 512p
(Anglo-Saxon Books 2006)
ISBN 1898281416. Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken.
Price US $49.95

I also think that the following paperbacks might be useful for others 
looking into Anglo-Saxon and earlier period foods and drink:

Banham, Debby. Food in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: 
Tempus, 2004. There are no surviving Anglo-Saxon cookbooks. This work 
describes what they ate and drank in England from non-recipe sources.

Alcock, Joan P. Food in Roman Britain. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK and 
Charleston, SC: Tempus, 2001. Alcock presents archaeological evidence 
for what the Romans ate in Britain. This is not a recipe book.

Even earlier -- Wood, Jacqui. Prehistoric Cooking. Stroud, 
Gloucestershire, UK and Charleston, SC: Tempus, 2001.
It covers what the prehistoric Celts ate. She talks about the problems
one encounters when attempting to recreate the life of a people who
left no written records.

Hope this helps,

Johnnae llyn Lewis