[Sca-cooks] One book on history of food

[Johnna Holloway]

C. Anne Wilson's Food and Drink in Britain and of course
Peter Brears' Cooking and Dining in Medieval England and also his All  
the King's Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton  
Court Palace
(coming out finally in paper in September 2011 for those that don't  
already have it).

Johnnae

On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Mercy Neumark wrote:

> snipped
> I had to reduce my cookbook library recently in general and kept  
> just what few historical books I had.  ...are there specific books  
> that one should just have if you need to do more research for  
> cooking projects and looking up ingrediants to find out if something  
> was new world or old world?  Are there specific books you all always  
> turn to?  Suggestions? Thanks! :)  --Mercy