The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages (Studies in Anglo-Saxon History) - Softcover

Scully, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851154301 ISBN 13: 9780851154305

Publisher: BOYE6, 1995

Synopsis

The master cook who worked in the noble kitchens of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had to be both practical and knowledgeable. His apprenticeship acquainted him with a range of culinary skills and a wide repertoire of seasonal dishes, but he was also required to understand the inherent qualities of the foodstuffs he handled, as determined by contemporary medical theories, and to know the lean-day strictures of the Church. Research in original manuscript sources makes this a fascinating and authoritative study where little hard fact had previously existed.

About this title

About the Author:

Terence Scully was a professor of French at Waterloo Lutheran University, now Wilfrid Laurier University.

Review:

(An) excellent reference work (it) puts this fascinating subject in context for expert and lay reader alike. A useful tool for re-enactors. ... Worth every penny. HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEWA compendium on practically all aspects of the art of cooking and dining... Because of the author's familiarity with all aspects of the subject we are offered this rara avis: a book which interests the specialist and the general reader; which allies common sense with scholarship; and which presents the theory and practice of medieval cooking for the scholar and the practitioner... has its place on the shelves of the practical cook as well as on those of the scholar: both can feed on it! HISTORY

About this edition

• Publisher: BOYE6
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0851154301
• ISBN 13: 9780851154305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284