[Sca-cooks] water

[Johnna Holloway]

Dorothy Hartley who wrote Food in England
did a volume on water.

Water in England
By Dorothy Hartley
Published by Macdonald, 1964
435 pages

Amazon in the US has copies

    * *Unknown Binding:* 416 pages
    * *Publisher:* Macdonald and Jane's (1978)

I bought a hardback copy while we were Cambridge in 84-85 so I suspect 
my copy
is this edition.

It's worth listing in the Florilegium and interlibrary loan should be 
able to supply you with a copy.

Johnnae



Stefan li Rous wrote:
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> Is the book really talking about the effects of different mineral 
> concentrations or about disease caused by pollution from human 
> habitation?
>
> No, as I think about it, my file probably doesn't deal with the 
> dangers of polluted rivers in the Middle Ages.  What I was hearing 
> back  then was that "No one drank water in the Middle Ages because if 
> was so polluted", so I was trying to save references showing that that 
> wasn't always true.
>