[Sca-cooks] BAD sources for historical cooks

Dragon dragon at crimson-dragon.com
Thu Mar 13 14:36:04 PDT 2008


Terry Decker wrote:

>Some of the recipes are extrapolations, as in the case of Wroclaw Trenchers,
>others may actually be period, but there is no attribution or source
>references for the originals and no way to determine the accuracy of the
>"reconstructed" recipes.
>
>I have been told, but have not been able to verify, Weaver's editing and
>adapting left out quite a bit of the reference and note material that was in
>the original Polish edition.
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Well that sucks.

I have an interest in finding out more about the cooking of the 
northern and eastern regions of Europe. Poland and Russia in particular.

I was hoping this book might prove to be useful.

Dragon

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