[Sca-cooks] Needham VI:5 as a culinary source

[Terry Decker]

Needham is a classic.  I don't know the quality of Food and Fermentation 
Science, but some of the other stuff I've seen from other volumes in the 
series are superb resources.

Bear


> I was just idly wondering what the more knowledgeable ones out here think 
> of
> J-. Needham: Science and Civilisation in China; Food and Fermentation 
> Science
> as a resource for culinary recreation. I realise he isn't trying to give
> recipes, but how well founded are the translations of the ones he quotes? 
> How
> reliable are the transmission pathways?
>
> I've learned the hard way that current Chinese science isn't always 
> credible,
> but I can't judge this one.
>
> Giano