[Sca-cooks] Advice on a Book

[Johnna Holloway]

Ok, I have my copy right here. It doesn't have modernized recipes.
It has descriptive passages from early texts that are dietary in nature.
There's a huge glossary and bibliography. You can use Dalby to get to the
actual sources, but you are going to have to either buy more books
or spend a lot of time in a library, a great academic library at that.
You aren't going to be able to just buy
Dalby and walk in a kitchen and cook full meals from what he provides.

Devra sells this book Byzantine Cuisine –$45.00 by* *Henry Marks.
http://www.poisonpenpress.com/cookery.html
"He has taken a number of Byzantine recipes from referenced sources and 
has adapted them for modern tastes while remaining as true as possible 
to the original; each recipe is annotated with literary, historical, and 
culinary information."

You might like it to start with.

Johnnae (playing librarian)

Mariann Eaves wrote:
> I was perusing Potboiler Press (which btw is finally up and going, Yay
> http://tranq3.tranquility.net/~potboilerpress/ ) and found Andrew Dalby,
> Flavors of Byzantium listed.  Is this a good book to start out with in
> learning to cook foods from the Bysantium period?
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> YIS,
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> Saraqan
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