[Sca-cooks] Sent Sovi Translation

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From: Susan Lord Williams <lordhunt at gmail.com>
> I have that book and it simply is not up to snuff like the Friedman/Perry 
> endeavour or Carroll-Mann's. In the Vogelzang Sent Sovi version the order of the 
> recipes has nothing to do with Sent Sovi's order.
[SNIP]

I'm not sure why you single out the translator and not the editor, Joan Santanach, for criticism.

Also, as Paul Freedman says in his extensive review, for which Johnnae provided a link:
"The Llibre de Sent Soví opens with a contradiction between its introductory chapter Index (an incomplete list of 91 recipes), and the actual text that follows (comprising 72 recipes in a different order). It doesn't help that the prologue says there are 87 dishes. 30 recipes listed in the Index do not figure in the book and, conversely, there are 14 recipes at the end of the Llibre that do not appear in the Index. As Santanach shows in his introductory orientation, it is tempting but false to assume that the Index represents a guide to an ur-text."

Urtatim (that's oor-tah-TEEM)