[Sca-cooks] Not just Fabulous Feasts

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Thu May 31 09:10:07 PDT 2007


Given that she died a year ago in March this may say
more about Lou Dobbs than it does about Cosman.
http://historymedren.about.com/b/a/254421.htm 
notes that she is best known for Fabulous Feasts.
That book continues to haunt us.

Johnnae
> Ooof.  She's kinda got an immigration axe to grind, too....Guess she doesn't
> want facts to stand in the way of a favored idea....
> --Maire, suspicious, as always, of people who fling random and inaccurate
> factoids about in attempts to bolster personal opinions.....
>
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>> I noticed recently a reference to a "Madeleine Cosman" in a context
>> unrelated to cooking. Lou Dobbs, who I gather is a television
>> commentator hostile to immigration, asserted that there had been 7000
>> cases of leprosy in the past three years, which he attributed to
>> immigrants. He offered, as his source, "a medical lawyer named Dr.
>> Madeleine Cosman." I did a little online checking, and it is indeed
>> the same Madeleine Cosman who wrote _Fabulous Feasts_. For an article
>> by  her making the claim see:
>>
>> http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine3.htm
>>
>> The figure is false--7000 is actually the number for the past thirty
>> years, not the past three years. Apparently cooking history wasn't
>> the only field where she was careless with facts.
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