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

[Johnna Holloway]

Markham's career is written about here--
 http://www.bartleby.com/214/1701.html
http://www.bartleby.com/214/1705.html

Johnnae

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