[Sca-cooks] What NOT to serve at feast...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> The earliest Markham is 1615 of course which isn't that much
> out of period. Ivan Day at his seminar in April was pointing
> out that Markham is very much
> a reflection of Tudor cookery.
>
> Johnnae

I've read [somewhere] that Markham had been sued for plagiarizing his  
own work (i.e., work he had previously sold outright to publishers,  
and therefore, in the prevailing legal environment, had no reprint  
rights to). I've also read that Markham's "The English Housewife" is,  
in large part, lifted from "La Maison Rustique". If those statements  
are true, Markham's recipes (or some of them) might easily date,  
originally, from the 1580's or so...

Adamantius





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