Books about Food

This is a collection of files that I have assembled from various sources since I first joined the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) in 1989. The information in these files comes from the Rialto newsgroup (rec.org.sca), the old fidonet medieval echo conferance area, various mail lists and articles submitted to me by their authors.

Several types of files are available:

-msg (or no suffix) These files are composed of a variety of short messages from a variety of authors having a common subject .

-art A stand-alone article written by a single author. Some are off of the networks while some were submitted to me by the author.

-bib A bibliography of book and article titles on a single subject.

-FAQ An article file that follows a Frequently Asked Questions format.

All text files are available in three formats, HTML, text and RTF. If the text and RTF formats are not mentioned explicitly in this index, they are available from within the HTML file.

THLord Stefan li Rous (Mark S. Harris, stefan at florilegium.org).

filelist-list The complete list of these Florilegium files. (also text, rtf.)
16thC-cookbk-bib A bibliography of 16th C. cookbooks.
App-a-Eye-rev-art A review by Mistress Jadwiga Zajaczkowa of "The Appetite and the Eye:...", edited by C. Anne Wilson.
Banquet-Stufe-art A review by Mistress Jadwiga Zajaczkowa of "Banquetting Stuffe", edited by C. Anne Wilson.
books-food Books about food. Not cookbooks.
cb-novices Cookbooks for those new to medieval cooking.
cb-rv-Apicius Reviews of cookbooks having Apicius recipes.
cb-rv-Platina Reviews of cookbooks having Platina recipes.
cb-rv-Tallivt Reviews of books having Taillevent's recipes
ckbks-13th-C-msg Cookbooks remaining from the 13th Century.
cookbooks-bib Cookbook bibliography by Jaelle of Armida.
cookbooks2-bib Cookbook bibliography by Stephen Bloch.
cookbooks3-bib Cookbook bibliography by Lady Allison.
cookbooks Reviews of cookbooks with medieval recipes.
cookbooks2 Reviews posted between 9/95 and 11/97.
cookbooks3 Reviews posted after 11/97.
cookbooks-SCA Cookbooks written by people in the SCA.
cooking-bib Bibliography on cooking sources.
Curye-on-Ingl-msg Reviews and comments on "Curye on Iglysch" - English Manuscripts of the 14th C.
Fabulous-Fsts Reviews and comments on Madeleine Pelner Cosman's "Fabulous Feasts".
food-hist-lnks Links to info on medieval food and cooking by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
fd-in-Chaucer Mentions of food in Chaucer's writings.
fd-Mer-Gaul-rv-art A review by Raymond Van Dam of "Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul".
Fix-4-TTEM-art Corrections to the book "Take a Thousand Eggs or More" by Cindy M. Renfrow.
food-hist-lnks Links to info on medieval food and cooking by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
Harpstrang-cb The Harpestraeng cookbook. The oldest cookbook in the Western world.
Gd-Huswfs-Jwl Recipes from and comments about "The Good Huswife's Jewell" pub. 1596 in London.
Livres-rev-art A review by Martha Carlin of a book about the history of medieval cookbooks.
Markham Gervase Markham and his _The English Housewife_ published in 1615.
Med-Cook-rev-art Review of "The Medieval Cookbook".
merch-cookbks Merchants selling period cookbooks.
online-ckbks Online versions of period cookbooks.
p-Dutch-food-bib A Bibliography on period Dutch food by Thomas Gloning.
p-Italy-food-bib Bibliographies on period Italian food.
Platina-bib A bibliography on Bartolomeo Platina by Thomas Gloning.
Wst-Nt-Wnt-Nt-rev A review by Mistress Jadwiga Zajaczkowa of "Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation ...", edited by C. Anne Wilson.
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