[Sca-cooks] Festins merovingiens -- new cookbook

[Aruvqan]

On 4/28/2012 4:31 PM, Terry Decker wrote:
> I don't know anything about Yves Cousin, but Alain Dierkins is a noted 
> European historian, Liliane Plouvier is a culinary historian and 
> Pierre Wynants was the owner and chef at the Comme chez Soi in 
> Brussels.  I'd say you have an all star cast, which may bode well for 
> the quality of the work.
>
> Bear
>
As long as they didn't pull a Vehling on it. His Apicius sucks donkey 
hind end.

Look, modern haute cuisine has sod all to do with period cooking in 
general. The closest thing that Merovingia has to molecular cuisine is 
the humor theory foods of the tacitum sanitas...

Now if they were to do the equivalent to Sir Cariadoc's careful research 
and interpretation that would be one thing, but I have a feeling it is 
going to be closer to Vehling. The supposed 'process of experimental 
archeology' by an amateur historian of taste and eating rather bothers 
me. Vehling was an amateur historian <roll eyes>