[Sca-cooks] Pancakes
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Aug 11 21:41:17 PDT 2008
Johnnae mentioned:
<<< This reminds me that Ken Albala has a new book coming out on this
topic.
It's titled: Pancake: A Global History.
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/book.html?id=334
Amazon in the US is saying October. >>>
Thank you, Johnnae. I think.
I've still got a bunch of info on pancakes which I haven't added to
the pancakes-msg file in the Florilegium, since I've been trying to
set a dividing line between what is and isn't a pancake, a crepe,
etc. Maybe this book will have a good way of organizing things.
Then again, I just bought a bunch of these history of particular
items books. Some of which are still to arrive. I don't *need* to buy
more for a while...
The one I'm currently reading is on coal. From discussions here I
thought the use of coal in Europe mainly started in the 16th century
when, at least in England, the forests were rapidly disappearing. But
apparently coal was burned on a small scale since the Romans and
started being used for industrial uses in the 14th century. And coal
was extremely disliked, especially by the upper class but it was cheap.
Stefan
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