[Sca-cooks] Good Book or No? The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe

Elise Fleming alysk at ix.netcom.com
Tue Aug 12 13:57:16 PDT 2008


Katheline asked:

>I was asked about a book that I hadn't heard of called "The Banquet: 
>Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe" by Ken Albala. 
>I looked it up on Amazon but the review on there didn't give me a clue 
>as to how knowledgeable the reviewer was in the area of food history. 
 
>So to the excellent and knowledgeable cooks on this list, is this a good 
>book or a bad one?

It's absolutely superb!  He makes links between cookery and unrelated
activities such as painting/art, etc.  I'm underlining and highlighting two
to three sentences on every page, something I haven't done in most books. 
Lovely, lovely book!

Alys Katharine

Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/





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