[Sca-cooks] Need Advice on cookbooks

[Johnna Holloway]

Part of the problem you are encountering may lie in the fact that
many of these countries did not publish cookbooks prior to 1600.
For those countries that did publish, only a limited number have 
translated into English.

Taking your list and going through it:

Irish-- earliest is late 17th or early 18th and that's a reprint of an English volume.

Celtic-- not a country at all.

German-- see http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_links1.htm and 
http://www.medievalcookery.com/etexts.shtm#Germany  for online texts

Danish seehttp://www.medievalcookery.com/etexts.shtm#Denmark 
See Grew and Hieatt *Libellus De Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern Cookery Book (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) for the 13th century manuscript in Danish.

*Polish-- no early cookbooks in Polish. You might look at: *Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past.

*Greek
Spanish see http://www.medievalcookery.com/etexts.shtm#Spain

Middle eastern see *Medieval Arab Cookery* and *Baghdad Cookery Book *newly translated by Charles Perry. 
also see http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Medieval.html 
also see Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens
Ibn Sayya-r al-Warra-q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook
English Translation with Introduction and Glossary by Nawal Nasrallah
Hardback 876 pages at $195.00.

I reviewed that one for this list in January.

Hungary Nothing published

Iceland 
See Grew and Hieatt *Libellus De Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern Cookery Book (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) for the 13th century manuscript in Danish.
*
Morocco Nothing published that early under Cookery--Morocco

Scotland-- First cookbook dates from 1736!

No project on sauces would be complete without seeing the Latin

Opusculum de Saporibus is up on Thomas Gloning's website
  http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/sapor.htm> 

and "A Mediaeval Sauce-Book" by Lynn Thorndike. Speculum, Vol. 9, No. 2 
(Apr., 1934), pp. 183-190. That version is on JSTOR now.

There's another paper of course: 
Scully, Terence. "The *Opusculum de Saporibus* of Magninus 
Mediolanensis." Medium Aevum, v. 54, no. 2, 1986: p. 178-207.

I am amazed to learn that you know and can work with all these languages.

Happy interlibrary loaning

Johnnae llyn Lewis


jwills47933 at aol.com wrote:
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> Okay I am doing a sauce project and I need to find cookbooks and I am not having any luck.? I just might not know where to look, heck it makes me feel stupid not being able to find these on my own, but when I have a resouce as good and powerful as you all, why go it alone.
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> I want to start with Interlibrary loans and then lpurchase as I can afford to.
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> I need the following Countrys in period of 600-1600.? Can you hellp me??????
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> Irish
> Celtic
> German
> Danish
> Polish
> Greek
> Spanish
> Middle eastern
> Hungary
> Iceland
> Morocco
> Scotland
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> There is my list the others I am usuing I already have.
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> I thank you in advance for you help in acquiring these cookbooks
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> In service and In Need
>
> Morvran
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