cooking-bib.wrd - 1/25/95

Cooking and cookbook bibliographies.

NOTE: See also the files: cookbooks-bib, cookbooks-msg, Harpstrang-cb-msg,
cb-novices-msg, 16thC-cookbk-bib, books-food-msg, merch-cookbks-msg.

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From: jtn@nutter.cs.vt.edu (Terry Nutter)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Cooking refs
Date: 1 Jul 93 02:38:52 GMT

Greetings, all, from Angharad ver' Rhuawn.  It has been
suggested in email that I might publish a list of sources
for people who'd like to start work in cookery.  A complete
list of good stuff I know is available in English is 
already long enough to be intimidating, and anyhow, it
suggests a kind of completeness that I can't claim.  The
following is rather more specialized, in that it centers
on 14th and 15th C English and French cuisine (about which
I know rather more than I do about other places and times).

The following are books currently in print that contain 
14th and 15th C recipes either in Middle English or in 
English translation of French recipes.  (Some also contain 
the Middle French originals.)

Hieatt, Constance B., ed., _An Ordinance of Pottage_, Prospect 
   Books (London) 1988, ISBN 0-907325-38-6.  Fifteenth C 
   English material.  Middle English; includes an extensive 
   glossary.

Hieatt, Constance B. and Sharon Butler, eds., _Curye on Inglysch_, 
   Oxford University Press (London, New York, Toronto) 1985, 
   ISBN 0-19-722409-1 (Early English Text Society SS8).  Fourteenth 
   C English material. Middle English; includes an extensive glossary.

Scully, Terence, _Chicart's On Cookery: A fifteenth-century 
   Savoyard culinary treatise_.  Peter Lang (New York and Bern) 
   1986.  Translation of Chiqart's _Du Fait de Cuisine_, dated 
   1420; the original French, edited by Scully, is available in 
   _Vallesia_ v. 40 (1985) 101-231.

Scully, Terence, _The Viandier of Taillevent: An Edition of all 
   Extant Manuscripts_, University of Ottawa Press (Ottawa), 1988, 
   ISBN 0-7766-0174-1.  Manuscript dates vary; most of the material 
   probably originates from the mid to late 14th C, but at least 
   one of the manuscripts dates from the second half of the 13th C.

The books below are also English and French 14th and 15th Century 
material, but are less readily available.  They are, however, reproduced 
in Cariadoc's collection of Medieval and Renaissance cookbooks (the 
Hinson translation of the Menagier is in volume 2; the rest are in 
volume 1).  You may also be able to find some of them in libraries.
If you plan to go to Pennsic, you can buy Cariadoc's collections
there.  If not, if you email him, he will let you know how to get
them by mail.

Austin, Thomas, ed., _Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books_, Early 
   English Text Society OS 91 (London) 1888; reprinted for the 
   EETS by Oxford University Press (London, New York, Toronto), 
   1964.  Middle English; includes glossary.

Hinson, Janet, trans., Le Menagier de Paris (unpublished).

Napier, Robina, _Noble Boke of Cookry ffor a Prynce Houssolde or 
   eny other Estately Houssolde_.  Elliott Stock (London) 1882.  
   English, about 1470.  Middle English; includes glossary.

Nichols, John, ed., _Ancient Cookery_, London, 1790.  Contains 
   recipes from Arundel MS 344; English material, early 15th C.  
   No glossary.  (This MS is included in the Hieatt and Butler 
   volume above, so if you have that, this is redundant.)

Pegge, S., _The Forme of Cury. A Roll of Ancient English Cookery_, 
   London, 1780.  This is the earliest extant edition of the 
   largest collections in Hieatt and Butler's _Curye on Inglysch_, 
   referenced above.  The Hieatt and Butler edition is far better; 
   they had access to more manuscripts to compare, and their 
   scholarship is better.

Power, Eileen, trans., _The Goodman of Paris (Le Menagier de Paris, 
   abridged), London, 1928.  French material, c. 1395.

There is another, newer edition of the Goodman out, for which I do
not have the information offhand.

Cariadoc's collection also includes both Kenelm Digby and Hugh Platt,
the two volumes I've been quoting from repeatedly in recent days.

Hawkwood Press has published a number of cooking related books, 
including the Malinkrodt translation of Platina (but not the Latin),
as well as Epularius, both Italian, as well as several late English
works.  Unfortunately, the usefulness of their editions is limited, 
because they have an annoying tendency to eliminate the information 
you need to do any scholarly work.  For instance, in their reprint of 
the _Babee's Boke_, they retitle it (so if you don't know what you've
got, you can't look it up), _and_ omit all the front material on the
dating of the MSs.  Hence you wind up with a copy of John Russell's
Boke of Nurture, but no indication of its date.  And likewise for
the other MSs it includes.  Their version of Platina does not give 
the name of the translator or the copyright information (the translation 
is still under copyright); from what you get, if common sense didn't 
tell you otherwise, you might think that Platina titled his work in 
Latin, published it in Italy, and wrote it in -- modern -- English.

<Sigh>

But at least they have the texts.

Hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

-- Angharad/Terry


From: epsteine@spot.Colorado.EDU (Emily Epstein)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Period cookbooks not published as books (was: Period plants)
Date: 13 Jan 95 00:16:54 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder

Greetings from Alix Mont de fer.

Angharad gave citations for Curye on Inglysch and Two Anglo-Norman Culinary
Collections. For those who're interested, I dipped into my files for a 
slightly more complete list of cookbooks that were published in a periodical 
or as part of some other kind of collection. Even if you're local library
doesn't have them, you should be able to get them via interlibrary loan.
In the case of periodicals, they'll often send a photocopy instead of the
bound volume. You usually don't have to return the photocopy, which will save
you some expense and a trip to Kinko's. Copy centers such as Kinko's will do
an inexpensive spiral binding, however, which I find very useful.

I apologize for some of the quick and dirty abbreviations and spacing. I
lifted this from a working handlist. I hope you can find it of some use.

Alix Mont de fer
epsteine@spot.colorado.edu

Anonimo Meridionale. Due libri di cucina. ed.Ingemar Bostrom.
Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1985.

Arberry, A.J. "A Baghdad cookery-book", Islamic Culture 13:1 Jan
     1939 p.21-47 & 13:2 Apr. 1939 p.189-214.   

Birlinger, Anton. "Kalender und Kochbuchlein aus Tegernsee",
     Germania. Vierteljahresschrift fur deutsche Alterthumskunde,
     9 (1864) pp.132-207.

Eberhard von Landshut. "Das Kochbuch des Eberhard von Landshut
     (erste Halfe des 15 Jhs." ed. Anita Feyl. Ostbairischen
     Grenzmarken, 5 (1961) pp.352-366.

Grewe, Rudolf. "An Early  XIII Century Northern-European
     Cookbook" A Conference on Current Research in Culinary
     History: Sources, Topics and Methods: Proceedings. (Culinary
     Historians of Boston, 1986) p.27-45.

Hieatt, Constance B., and Robin F. Jones. "Two Anglo-Norman
     culinary collections edited from British Library Manuscripts
     additional 32085 and Royal 12.C.xii." Speculum 61:4 (1986)
     p.859-882. 
 
Merle, J. Osset. "Un libro de cocina del siglo XIV". Boletin de
     la sociedad castellonense de cultura 17(1935) pp.156-177.

Mulon, Marianne. "Deux traites inedits d'art culinaire medieval.
     Bulletin Philologique et Historique du Comite des Travaux
     Historiques et Scientifiques 1968 v.1 p.368-435.

Scully, Terence. "Du fait de cuisine par Maistre Chiquart, 1420.:
     Vallesia 40 (1985) p. 101-231. (This was later published with an English 
     translation, index and extensive prefatory material by the University
     of Toronto) 

Thorndike, Lynn. "A mediaeval sauce-book". Speculum, 9 (1934),
     pp.183-190. Commentary and first publication of Opusculum de
     saporibus of Magninus Mediolanensis (in Latin)


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