[Sca-cooks] OT book digression was Re: What do you want for Christmas?

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> > So, plop on Santa's knee and tell him what you want for 
> >Christmas.

I've already asked Santa for a second-hand stand mixer (and a 
replacement, 2nd hand food processor for feast purposes, as I've killed 
off my old one-- sad as I never used it except for SCA food service).

But, completely unrelated, what I want most of all is for all my friends 
and relations in the SCA to get from Santa copies of _The Artifice of 
Beauty_ by Sally Pointer. 

If you have any interest at all in historic cosmetics or perfumes... get 
it. Buy it for your SOs, your apprenti, etc. For the first half of the 
book, I had decided that I should give up teaching about perfumes and 
personal use of herbs in period entirely and just  hand out copies of 
this book. I'm a little better now, but anything that includes redacted 
recipes and a laid-out process for redacting recipes for COSMETICS and 
PERFUMES from the very earliest period through the Victorian one, plus a 
section on major historic perfume/cosmetic ingredients, you want...

-- 
-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it screams
'Why don't you ever listen to me?' and lets fly with a club."