[Sca-cooks] Doing my best

[Wanda Pease]

I happen to have both books (Atlas is comb bound after I downloaded it) on
my shelves.  Take a look at the translations for whole roast pig.  I don't
think either of them got it even close to right.  Pinning little pancakes
all over piggy?  From the roast baby pig we had in Segovia, Spain, I think
the book is trying to tell the cook to drizzle a thin flour/egg/water
mixture over piggy just before finishing up to give the skin a nice glaze
and crackle.

Considering the other book Adamson edited I'm not so sure of her practical
culinary skills.  In fact, when I contacted the publisher of the Gutter
Spise in the Austrian university I got back a reply that the local history
teacher and some of his class were having a ball trying to cook from it!  I
tried to guide him to this list, but he didn't feel his schedule would let
him take on an English Language list with as much volume as this one does.


Regina
>
> >There's some
> >question whether Adamson would ever have gotten off her butt and done
> >her own edition of Ein Buoch von Guter Spise had Atlas not produced
> >her flawed version.
>
> If my translation makes someone publish a better one, then I've have
> accomplished something!!
>
> Ranvaig