[Sca-cooks] 12th century recipes from Durham Priory

[Christiane]

I had posted the Durham University article to the 12th Century Foods group on Yahoo!, and the admin of that group immediately got in touch with Giles Gasper, lecturer in medieval history at Durham. Here is his reply:

"Dear Katherine,

Thanks you very much indeed for your message, and we're pretty excited by
the news as well. We are planning to publish a cookbook based on the
recipes, hopefully within the calendar year, and a scholarly paper on the
manuscript context. The event will be covered, I hope, in the BBC History
Magazine. I will try and arrange for video as well - I'm sure the media
department can rustle something up.

All best wishes,

Giles Gasper"


So yes, we will have redactions as well as the original recipes coming. Very exciting!

Discover magazine got some translations here:

http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-european-medieval-cookbook-found-130417.htm

For my own research, I have been trying to see if there were any connections between Durham and the Sicilian Norman court. Doesn't seem to be any, though Gualtiero Offamiglio (Walter of the Mill), archbishop of Palermo and minister to William II, was English. I have no idea where he originally came from however.

YIS,
Adelisa Salernitana