[Sca-cooks] books to sell

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Ana L. Valdés wrote:

> I discovered a marvelous software to classify my huge library,  
> Delicious, excellent, connected to Amazon database. Sadly, only for  
> Mac so far...

What's the software? It may be possible to export the data file to  
another format like Excel or Filemaker Pro directly from the  
application, or via something even more fiendish like MacLink Plus.

Adamantius, who recently discovered that the last good version of  
WordPerfect for the Mac, 3.5, still runs great and lightning fast in  
OS 9 and OS X's Classic mode...


> When I started to range my books I discovered several books I own  
> two copies of. Maybe could be interesting to someone in the list,  
> the books are in English and in French.
> They are all listed on Amazon: Le Viandier de Taillevent, in  
> French, facsimile edition
> The Curiosities of Food, Peter Lund Simmons lovely collection of  
> strange foods and recipes
> Par Mets et par Vines, Voyages et Gastronomie en Europe XVI-XVIII  
> siecles, in French
> Early French Cookery. Sources, History. Terence Scullys research
> The Debt to Pleasure, novel with culinary flavour
> The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, facsimile edition
> Pomp and Sustenance, 25 centuries of Sicilian Food, great history  
> of Sicily, period food and modern food
> The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages, Terence Scully, superb  
> introduction to the cuisine in the Middle Ages
> Consuming Passions, the Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and  
> Early Modern Europe, excellent scholar work about the tabu of  
> cannibalism and the religious connotations
> The Art of Eating Well, the Italian cookbible
> Pratiques et discours alimentaires a la Rennaisance, actes du  
> Colloque de Tours, scholar papers from the celebre symposium held  
> in Tours 1979, based on the uses of food in the Rennaisance
>
> Several of them are listed on very high prices, I wonder if some  
> library or some University can buy them.
> My economy is now a very shaky economy and I must get as much money  
> I can, to buy more books :)
>
> Ana
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