[Sca-cooks] book question

[Cat .]

Thank you all for your replies.
Amazon had tossed it at me, so I was curious, but it does not sound useful to me.  
I still have a marked preference for German, and love facsimile editions far better than anything else I can get.  Is there anything new out there in that arena? I have Rumpolt, and the 4 tupperware editions (and one more that Im not sure I can read the handwriting is so horrid, but I have it ;-) and will work on it when time permits.

For non German I prefer facsimile in the front and in the back of the book a facing page transcription (into modern script) and translation into english.

and yes Stefan, I would LOVE the complete Madrone booklets - I have the Mogul India one, but that is it (and it is out on loan to one of my apprenti... ;-)

Thanks again,
Gwen Cat


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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:25:08 -0400
> From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] book question
> To: tgrcat2001 at yahoo.com, Cooks within the SCA
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> This title fits in with a series of books that covers
> ancient through 
> modern cookery.
> It's a good set for libraries and schools, less
> valuable perhaps for the 
> committed SCA
> cook.
> You might like another Greenwood title more:
> 
> Morton, Mark and Andrew Coppolino. *Cooking with
> Shakespeare*. Westport, 
> CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. Series: Feasting with Fiction.
> 320 pp.
> 
> I have a review in process on that one. Not published yet.
> 
> Any specific country or time that you are interested in? I
> can always 
> come up with a list.
> My Autumn list of forthcoming books should be out next
> week. Waiting on 
> PW to arrive.
> 
> Or you might just ask for whatever titles Devra has to
> offer at Poison 
> Pen Press
> http://www.poisonpenpress.com/cookery.html
> 
> And last but not least David Brown is running another
> sale--
> http://www.oxbowbooks.com/browse.cfm/CatID/797
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> > 
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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:57:30 -0500
> From: Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at austin.rr.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks]  book question
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks
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> <<< I tried to search the archives and got no
> hits, so I thought I  
> would try here.  The title sounds interesting, the
> description less  
> promising:
> 
> Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650 (Greenwood Press Daily Life
> Through  
> History series)
> 
> Gwen (being asked for birthday HINTS) Cat >>>
> 
> You got some feedback on this specific book.  But I think a
> lot of it  
> will depend upon what sorts of books are you interested in?
> Are you  
> more interested in books about food and food subjects? Or
> cookbooks  
> with medieval recipes? And if the latter, do you want just
> the  
> original texts,  the translations, or both of these plus a
> modern  
> redaction?
> 
> Here are some files in the FOOD-BOOKS section of the
> Florilegium  
> which might help you come up with other book ideas.
> books-food-msg   (172K)  2/21/08    Books about food. Not
> cookbooks.
> cookbooks-bib     (44K)  2/15/04    Cookbook bib. by
> Mistress Jaelle  
> of Armida.
> cookbooks-msg     (72K) 12/21/01    Reviews of cookbooks
> with  
> medieval recipes.
>                                         Messages posted
> before  
> September 1995.
> 
> Or if someone  wanted to buy you the complete collection of
> these  
> pamphlets that would give you some good recipes and a broad
> overview  
> of a number of different topics and time periods. The
> ordering info  
> is given in this new file.
> Feudl-Gourmet-art  (6K)  8/30/08    A list of the Feudal
> Gourmet  
> pamphlet
>                                         series by the
> Madrone  
> Culinary Guild.
> 
> Stefan
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of
> Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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