[Sca-cooks] Book info to Johnna?

[Carol Smith]

Thank you, and not just from me.  Someone I know is specifically interested in this, and I'm not sure she's still on the list.  Permission to forward?

Regards and (again) thanks,
Brekke

> From: johnnae at mac.com
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:13:29 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Book info to Johnna?
> 
> Looks interesting. Woolgar's review is below.
> 
>    SABINE KARG (ed.). Medieval food traditions in Northern Europe  
> (Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and  
> History 12). 230 pages, 63 b&w & colour illustrations, 45 tables.  
> 2007. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark; 978-87-7602-065-1  
> hardback DKK300.
> 
> The scope of this volume is narrower than its title suggests, but it  
> is nonetheless an important collaborative advance, containing the  
> first fruits of the HANSA Network Project, established in 2001 by a  
> group of archaeobotanists. Focused on countries and urban centres with  
> links to Hanseatic trade (although it excludes those in England,  
> Flanders and Russia) between AD 1160 and 1650, it has brought together  
> extensive work with botanical remains with a view to discerning common  
> points of reference across the region. The contributions take a  
> standard form, with seven chapters principally on food consumption in  
> the Hanseatic towns of northern Germany, northern Poland, Estonia,  
> Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, concluding with a brief chapter  
> synthesising results. The book concentrates on some 175 plants, from  
> 156 species, largely food plants, both cultivated and wild, as well as  
> some arable weeds and a few ornamental plants or plants with  
> industrial use. One of the achievements is a common pattern of  
> recording, underpinned by linguistic work (word-lists for plants in  
> English, Latin and the seven languages of the participants are  
> included): the volume itself is in English, with an extensive and  
> welcome bibliography principally of site reports from each of the  
> countries.
> 
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3284/is_318_82/ai_n31909152/
> 
> talked about here
> 
> http://www.nnu.dk/makro/makrouk3.htm
> 
> I've interlibrary loaned it in. It wasn't available or turning up last  
> year when I did the Viking/Scand. article for TI or I would have  
> turned it up then.
> 
> I searched that subject heading I know. I suspect in fact just weeks  
> ahead of the book being catalogued.
> 
> We'll have to ask if Devra will carry it.
> 
> 
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> On May 5, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Carol Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> > (Sorry for the bandwidth, but...)
> >
> > Dear Johnna:
> >
> > I discovered a book titled "Medieval Food Traditions in Northern  
> > Europe", published by the National Museum in Denmark (2007).  How  
> > useful is it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brekke
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