[Sca-cooks] Questions about cookbooks for "novice/intermediate"cooks
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Mon Sep 9 17:56:29 PDT 2013
For the novice, I would suggest starting with something like Redon, Sabban,
& Serventi, "The Medieval Kitchen" which has transcripts, translations and
worked out recipes. Or you might try Best's editing of Gervase Markham's
The English Housewife, where you would need to work out the recipes. As the
price and difficulty go up, decide what you want to do before jumping in.
Yakking with me at the Feast of St. Golias may give you some pointers.
If you want to check out transcriptions of period works, try Thomas
Gloning's website http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/kobu.htm . If you don't
have the language skills to translate the texts, check the Florilegium
www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/idxfood-manuscripts.html or David
Friedman's website http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Medieval.html or
get a good dictionary of the language, a decent grammar and a pronunciation
guide so you can try to locate words, phrases and phononyms to produce a
literal translation. Hint: finding the translations is a lot easier.
You might also want to check out the Fons Grewe digital collection which has
about 50 digitized texts from the cookbook collection he left the University
of Barcelona. If the following link doesn't get you the English version of
the page, one of the buttons in the upper right corner of the page will
allow you to select the language. Unfortunately, it won't translate the
texts. http://mdc.cbuc.cat/cdm/landingpage/collection/fonsgrewe/lang/en_US
There appear to be some problems with Martha Carlin's webpage or I would add
it as a pointer to a number of translations.
I'm thinking of donating some pan peppato to the feast this year. Wanna try
some?
Bear
> I've been cooking "ethnic" feasts for several years, but am now starting
> to
> cook more period recipes. Bear once told me "If you can cook middle
> eastern, you can cook period" As I read through the Florilegium, and
> through posts on here, I see several period authors cited, but I don't
> know
> what the titles of the books are or if they are in print.
>
> This leads me to a list of questions. If someone was going to buy
> "period"
> cookbooks, what would you recommend they buy? What out of print books
> would you recommend they keep an eye out for? What period cookbooks are
> available online?
>
> Auria of Golias
> Outlands
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