[Sca-cooks] I'm the Sweets of Araby...

[Johnna Holloway]

Ok
I have to ask the question as to how many medieval or specialist  
scholars ever review cookery books in general?
Or even how many works containing recipes are reviewed in the serious  
historical press?
In the course of a year how many works can PPC even review? Or  
Gastronomica?
(In general, libraries rely on Booklist and PW and book reviews in the  
papers, but those seldom cover cookbooks.)

I felt we did very well in that the Concordance was favorably reviewed  
in PPC, Gastronomica, and Medium Aevum.
And we were mentioned by Food History News and Bruno Laurioux's websites

This is an inexpensive paperback. I wouldn't really expect to see  
critical reviews but ones more along this one:
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2011/09/14/features/6471427.txt

Johnnae

On Sep 26, 2011, at 1:45 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Are there any *real* reviews of the following book?
>
> The Sweets of Araby: Enchanting Recipes from the Tales of the 1,001  
> Arabian Nights
> by Muna Salloum and Leila Salloum Elias snipped
> So i wonder if anyone has seen this book or a review of good  
> quality, rather than the fluff that i found. Clearly, it is meant to  
> be something of a "popular" work, but still, i wonder if any scholar  
> of medieval Arabic/Middle Eastern history/cookery has reviewed it.