[Sca-cooks] 14th century catalan?

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Fri Jun 11 12:41:12 PDT 2010


That's helpful. So maybe more a gastronomy work than cookery???

Johnnae

On Jun 11, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Johnna wrote:
>
>> Also mentioned in  Cuina medieval catalana: història, dietètica i  
>> cuina
>>  By Eliana Thibaut i Comalada (Valls, Tarragona : Cossetània  
>> Edicions, 2006.
>> 382 p. )
>> (I really wish someone would publish her books in English.)
>
> Cuina medieval catalana has a partial preview in Google Books, so I
> was able to look at her mention of the 1331 text.  She quotes Grewe
> (from his introduction to Libre de Sent Sovi) as saying that it's not
> a book of recipes, but a collection of instructions concerning the
> foodstuffs and the meals served throughout the year to the canons,
> monks, friars, etc. belonging to the See of Tarragona.
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain



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