[Sca-cooks] Zinziber: Sauces from Poitou

[Johnna Holloway]

Mark Grant's Anthimus is also available. Also by Prospect Books.

Johnnae

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> On Jun 18, 2016, at 10:45 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Well, it is, as the title says, sauces. So maybe not that much to work  
> with. This was originally touted as "the oldest European cookbook", which was  
> strange, since Faith Wallis had actually published excerpts from Anthimus, 
> whose  text is (like this one) a medical one, but much older and with greater 
> variety.  That claim has disappeared in the final product.
> Arnaldus' recipes are somewhat closer to your persona's time than the usual 
> fare (his dates are  c. 1240–1311).  I've actually  teased out a few on my 
> blog:
> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-doctors-blancmange-medieval-recipes
> .html
> But that was before learning that the common edition of his  collected 
> works is highly corrupt, and some of these are properly credited to  other 
> writers. Haven't had a chance to backtrack and check against this list to  see 
> which:
> http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/en/apocrifs
> Jim  Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 
>