[Sca-cooks] food(ography)
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Mon Jun 28 10:10:44 PDT 2010
Emilio asked:
> >However: Is the work of or ascribed to Apicius the "first cookbook"?
Urtatim replied:
>Nah. There are several tablets written in
>Akkadian from around 1700 BCE (i.e., nearly 4000
>years old) that i think currently qualify as the
>oldest known cookbooks... well, short collections
>of recipes.
Johnnae commented:
>But I would argue that the clay tablets do not make up a "cookbook".
>They may be surviving recipes from an ancient cuisine but they are not
>books nor were they assembled into books. They are the barest of
>'receipts' intended to keep track of accounts and items and what was
to >be done with foodstuffs.
That's probably the crux of the matter. How does one define a
"cookbook"? We often go around and around in discussions because we use
the same word(s) but define it/them differently.
Alys K.
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