[Sca-cooks] monastic cooking
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue May 17 04:46:07 PDT 2011
Thanks for the information. I was just scanning the list at this store
and wondered if anyone had seen it
or might find it interesting.
I have no idea if the original poster Waldetrudis von Metten/Kimetha
Steele ever found what was wanted or not. Posted once and disappeared.
Johnnae
On May 17, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Volker Bach wrote:
> --- Johnna schrieb am Di, 17.5.2011:
>
>>
>> In April someone was looking for
>> texts on monastic cookery; tonight I came across
>> this German title:
>> Dreihundertjähriges deutsches Kloster-Kochbuch ( ISBN:
>> 3826215001 )
>> 1994, 135 S. ISBN: 3826215001 http://www.buchgourmet.com They
>> list 60 works under
>> Recipes from Bible, Monastery, Church & Parsonage
>
> A word of warning on this one: it is a genuine manuscript, as far as
> I can tell, and i would date it to the sixteenth century from
> context. however, the editor has relentlessly modernised the
> spelling and syntax and in the process introduced some misreadings.
> Still interesting, if not very ascetic (the monastic context is
> established only through its provenance).
> YIS Giano
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