[Sca-cooks] Anna Wecker and sauteed potatoes

[Terry Decker]

>> Of
>> interest to me, was the fact that Wecker does not appear in the list of
>> Aresty's collection as presented in The Delectible Past, therefore, we 
>> have
>> no idea which edition was being quoted.
>
> Most likely the 1598, as it is AFAIK the only one that was reprinted in
> facsimile.
>
> Giano

>From the sound of this you're making the assumption that Aresty used a 
facsimile edition.   I  believe you will find the first facsimile (1598) 
edition was a German publication in 1977.  Aresty's The Delectible Past was 
published in 1964.

Aresty was a noted collector of old cookbooks, largely in manuscript or 
first edition.  She was also a well known author on matters culinary and was 
well connected in the academic community, being a Princeton faculty wife. 
She might consider using a facsimile a little gauche.

Johnna has shown that she probably owned a 1605 Konig edition of Wecker by 
1996 when Aresty donated her collection to the University of Pennsylvania. 
However, to quote Aresty in The Delectible Past, "I have not included the 
many German books;  they begin with Ein Koch und Erzen Buch, Gratz, 1686." 
This suggests that she had not yet added a copy of Wecker to her collection 
in 1964, which leaves the question of which edition she was referencing wide 
open.

Bear