[Sca-cooks] Period Cookbooks and Period to modern glosseries

[Suey]

I have been working for I can't remember how many years on a 
Spanish-English glossary. It consists of Spanish words in recipes from 
Huici's Spanish translation of the 13th C Hispano-Arab text, Nola's 
Castellan text, some of Sent Sovi but not much as I do not speak 
Catalan, northern food items as in Leon, Asturias and Galicia and 
Extremadura especially where I have spent a lot of time especially 
because we bring five pigs from Huelva annually to Madrid and the family 
that kills them and teaches me to make their chorizo and other pork 
products comes from Monroy. Here is Chile we sacrifice a few sheep at 
Christmas time. I have taken my photos to the Monroy family and they are 
so impressed that the conquistores from their lands took their methods 
of the slaughter to South America. Back to the subject the Spanish words 
are  explained in English. Such as 

*almizcle*, *hierba de almizcle, almizclera, aguja de Nuestra Señora*, 
*hebra* *del* *moro*, OCast /almizque, almizcado/ L. /Er odium 
moschatum,/ Ar. /mi(sk /or/ al'milhrâs/, Eng./ /musky storkbill. It is 
very similar to red stem stork's bill (L. /Er odium planetarium/, Sp. 
/Valparaiso's/) but the cuts in the leaves are not as sharp although 
similar and can penetrate sheepskin. It grows all over Spain and on the 
Balearic Islands in meadows and hidden spots. It is rare elsewhere. In 
Spain, the juice was extracted and drunk with water and sugar before 
breakfast and at bedtime for its diuretic and vulnerary properties. It 
is most known as a perfume and at times has been called the 'Moor's 
perfume'. It is rare elsewhere. [Nola/Iranzo. 1982:167; and Nola/Pérez. 
1992:187]


    Total I don't think I can improve the text anymore but as we saw 
with Fadalat the first publication on line stunk my English is so bad. I 
hope now we have caught enough errors to make appear presentable. Now 
here I must say I have very little chance to practice English, it is my 
husband's third language and our children are grown living in Mexico and 
the states. Recently Peter, my husband, went to the states for a big 
birthday party of a former employer. The night before the grand event 
his poetic mind ran away with him and got up from bed and wrote a 
beautiful speech in her honor. The next day at the proper time he stood 
up and gave his speech. While relating this story to me he repeatably 
told me but 'you know Suey my English is so bad, so bad.' When he 
finished his little speech he looked up and everyone at the banquet was 
crying, 'Oh, Peter, I exclaimed, Was your English soo BAD!, so BAD??'
    Now my little piece is a bit longer that Peter's speech. I spent 
various years the National Library in Spain from 9-9, 5 days a week and 
went to Britain to the London and Bodlien to research so I don't want to 
publish these 400 pages on line. I would like to receive some 
compensation by publishing with an editor in book style. My question is 
to whom can I address my issue and who will edit properly. An American 
friend published recently after his wife and he combed his work up and 
down. They received the first edition, opened it and on the first page 
there was a gross error the two had missed. The publisher had not even 
looked at the work before sending it to press.
Suey