[Sca-cooks] "A Thyme and Place"

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I have a copy here at my bookstore. It's arranged in chronological 
order, holiday by holiday.  Many are later period, despite the claims of 
medieval.  It's fairly "cutesy" - the Hocktide entry reads "A little 
Fifty-Shades-of-Grey-ish, but hey...cheesy bread!"  The recipes are 
heavily modern - dragon lamb wellington, chutney, pork rolls made with 
egg roll wraps, etc.  Some might have started from a medieval recipe- 
cherry pudding, wassail, herb fritters, salmon pie, but without the 
original recipe listed I can't see how they came up with these 
redactions.  with The illustrations are drawings, and not particularly 
period.   There is no documentation for anything - not the holiday lore, 
not the recipes, and definitely not the illustrations.  There isn't even 
a bibliography in the back so you can see what sources they used.

Katherine

On 1/6/2017 1:50 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:
> Greetings! Does anyone have any information on this cookery book, "A 
> Thyme and Place: Medieval Feasts and Recipes for the Modern Table"? 
> Authors are Lisa Graves and Tricia Cohen. There don't appear to be any 
> references, however brief, to medieval recipes.
>
> Apologies if this was discussed earlier, but I can't seem to use the 
> Archives.
>
> Alys K.