Medieval Kitchen review

[bunnyjadwiga]

The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes
by Hannele Klemettila There are some really good features of this book. The best is the illustrations. I'm not sure how they got permission (assuming they did get permission) to reproduce all those period depictions of cooking and eating, but the book is worth it just for those gorgeous color

Comments

[dagonell]

There's a mystery series by Dean James where all the titles are of the form 'Verbed' to Death. I picked up the fourth novel, "Baked to Death" because it was a mystery set at a Renaissance Faire. The SCA is quickly mentioned by one character solely so another character can definitively say that they are a *different* medieval recreation group. To show that he did his research, the author has a medieval food historian (with PhD and everything!) praising Madeline Pelner Cosman. I found the passage hysterically funny, because I kept reading it as the speaker being tongue-in-cheek, even though that's probably not what the author intended! :)
-- Dagonell