[Sca-cooks] Answers to my contest

[Johnna Holloway]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Johnnae said:
> <<<This is what comes from having the home library that I have assembled
> over the past 35 years ...snipped
>
> Yes, but how do you have them organized so you knew where to go look?  
>   
The majority of the glossaries and dictionaries plus a number of 
encyclopedias are in the bookcase upstairs here. I have about 1000 readily
available. Items like Mark Morton's Cupboard Love are here. These are 
works that would
have been catalogued under subject headings like Cookery-- Dictionaries 
or Gastronomy--Dictionaries or Food--Dictionaries.
All of Constance Hieatt's books (hint there is a glossary
in the Concordance-- funny thing there are 5 copies of that about 6 feet 
from where I sit :-) ) Plus Austin is here.
There are also medieval and Renaissance glossaries in a number of  books 
like that. People don't pay attention always to
the glossaries but they are there.

> In the past you've said that most of your 10000+ books were down in  
> the basement. So how did you even know which boxes to look in? snipped 
Never looked in any boxes. Didn't need to.
> But even though  
> most are in one area it would still take me a while to find the books  
> wanted.
>   
It takes some time to pull books and journals off the shelf, but 
probably more time was spent in the typing than the finding.

It's what librarians do however. I would not have been satisfied with 
anything less than 40/40. Really great reference librarians
do this everyday, although most libraries have policies on answering 
trivia questions because it's too expensive in time.
> <<< If you sorted the words out by date and made some reasonable guesses
> to to where they might have appeared it worked out.
> But of course I own these sorts of sources and have them at hand.>>>
>
> Okay, that helps, some. Did you then use the indexes to check for  
> individual words? Or did some of your books have glossaries that  
> contained these words?
>   
Both. See Above.
> <<< My guess is that the words could have been "googled" also with the
> answers found. >>>
>
> I thought that that was disallowed.
>   
But then it was allowed. Although I didn't make use of it.
> I am curious though, what type of pot *is* a "mammiform costrel"?
>
> Stefan
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