[Sca-cooks] Sources was A pleasant Italian Fish recipe

[Johnna Holloway]

I have to agree of course that  research into medieval culinary  
collections is ongoing. There are
any number of recent dissertations that have brought to light  
previously unpublished and little known manuscripts.
Not everything in this field was done by the Victorians.

Johnnae

[There is in fact this brand new hot off the press volume by Hieatt,  
Nutter, and Holloway on Medieval English Recipes,,,,,,]

On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>
> On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Tom Vincent wrote:
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>>   I figure that so many period cookbooks have been published,  
>> distributed, dissected, redacted and wrestled with in Med/Ren  
>> groups around the country that there isn't too much 'new under the  
>> sun', so to speak.
>
> You might be surprised, then, I think. There aren't any new  
> medieval manuscript sources being written today, and most of the  
> extant ones have been discovered, perhaps, but some of them are  
> garnering new interest, new research, and most importantly, a _lot_  
> more easy accessibility.  snipped
>
> This is in no way an attempt to belittle your efforts -- rather,  
> it's an attempt to show you that this field is pretty vital just  
> now, and more so than it used to be, and I don't really buy the  
> "nothing new under the sun" scenario. Or maybe there's nothing new,  
> but a lot that's old and undiscovered, being discovered ;-) ?
> Adamantius