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Title: Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony by Madeleine Pelner. Cosman, Madeline Pelner Cosman ISBN: 0-8076-0898-X Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Information of varying accuracy, no supporting documents.
Comment: Lots of information about food preparation and laws in medieval Europe, including modern "adaptations" of medieval recipes. Unfortunately, many of these adaptations are extremely loose, e.g. not showing the original recipe being "adapted", and using ingredients that don't remotely resemble anything available in medieval Europe. Enormous bibliography, but no indication of which source any given recipe or statement came from, so there's no way to check their accuracy.
On the positive side, the book includes many quotations from sumptuary and sanitation laws, which give insight into medieval food practices.
Rating: 5
Summary: What good eating is all about (for Chaucer...)
Comment: My background is in Medieval History. I have always been fascinated with flavours and sounds in addition to kings and social movements. This, of course, led to the discovery of Fabulous Feasts.
Now as to the 100% accuracy of the recipes, I am unable to vouch. I can say, however, that they are all clearly discribed and easy to follow. I have a particular fondness for the arbolyetts and the parsley bread. I have cooked, at one time or another over the past 15 years, about 2/3 of the recipes -- some are definitely acquired tastes and some are pure show-stoppers.
Cosman also does a marvelous job of giving you food lore and manners of the latter half of the Middle Ages. From the salacious to the practical, all sorts of information is here. Her bibliography is helpful for those who want to follow further in her footsteps and her list of where to get the ingredients is good, but a bit dated. WARNING: at least one of the spice stores listed has shut since this book was first released.
This is a book for cooks and amateur historians. It is not a HISTORY book, but rather a cookbook that gets into a bit of history and allows you to sample the tastes of another time and place.
Rating: 1
Summary: Medieval - It's Not
Comment: Although this book claims to be a historical reference about 1500c cookery it is not an accurate reference. The recipies are not historically accurate, and the book does not provide the original recipes. [bad], "exploitive", "fantasy" are words that my wife (a food historian) uses to describe this book.
Recommend anything by terrance scully.
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Title: The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black ISBN: 0500015481 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy by Odile Redon, Francoise Sabban, Silvano Serventi, Patricia Glee Smith, Edward Schneider ISBN: 0226706850 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Medieval Celebrations: How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, Dances, and Games by Daniel Diehl, Mark Donnelly ISBN: 0811728668 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society by Bridget Ann Henisch ISBN: 027100424X Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks by Constance B. Hieatt, Sharon Butler, Brenda M. Hosington ISBN: 0802076327 Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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