[Sca-cooks] scottish recipes
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Nov 24 23:56:31 PST 2008
Lady Cecilia de Cambrige replied to my comments with:
<<< Have you looked at Alexander Necham's writings by any chance? They
are very helpful when it comes to 12th-century life, and there's even
a small section on cookery. Some of his work is translated in the
book *Daily Living in the Twelfth Century* by... >>>
I believe I do have that particular book, but my book database is
temporarily offline so I can't look it up.
However, I've only had a chance to glance through it and I hadn't
realized it had anything on food, nor did I realize it had anything
specific to northern England. I'll have to find my copy. Thanks for
the suggestion.
<<< Also, the entire Latin text is available through Google books.
If I
weren't a busy college student, I'd do a translation. :) >>>
That doesn't help me, since I can only read English and some Spanish.
The Latin translations in the Florilegium are from others :-)
Stefan
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