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Sun, Jun 10, 2007

Cooking History

Posted at 6:06 pm MDT to Technology

I own a number of books and pamphlets about the history of cooking. Some go back to my days in the SCA.

At least one goes back to Easter vacation when I was in eighth grade. Some of the teachers took our American History class on a camping trip touring Revolutionary War and Civil War sites, and Jamestown and Williamsburg. One of the souvenirs I brought back was a booklet on cooking in the Colonial period.

I've found a website with a lot of useful information and links related to Medieval Cooking. I especially like the dictionary of medieval English cooking terms.

And I'm reminded that I need to actually read my copy of the second edition of McGee's On Food and Cooking. Also another book on my to-be-read stack: Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. I really liked Pollan's first book The Botany of Desire and I'm looking forward to the newer one, but I keep getting distracted.

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