[Sca-cooks] New Menagier was Forthcoming titles Fall 2008 LONG

[Johnna Holloway]

I can't tell from the descriptions either and I also am wondering which 
manuscript
or manuscripts they are using. I have the Brereton and Pichon editions 
in French.
The latter is two volumes. Are they using those books or the manuscripts 
or a combination?
We may have to wait until an edition actually appears before we can tell 
what this
one contains.

Johnnae



Sandra Kisner wrote:
>
>> *The Good Wife's Guide (Le Menagier De Paris): A Medieval Household Book
>> (Hardcover) *
>> by Donald Phillip Verene (Editor), Gina L. Greco (Translator) 408 pages.
>> **Cornell University Press (Feb 2009) *ISBN-10:* 0801447380. *ISBN-13:*
>> 978-0801447389.
>> paperback and hardcover
>> http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5265
>
> This one intrigues me.  The website emphasizes that this is the first 
> *complete* English translation.  I know of Eileen Powers' translation, 
> and know there's been another (I forget the author's name), but wasn't 
> aware that neither was complete.  Does anyone know what might have 
> been left out?  If it isn't cooking-related, it might be a "take it 
> from the library" book rather than a "buy my own copy" book.
>
> Sandra