[Sca-cooks] books was ideas for christmas prezzie cookery books, please?

[Johnna Holloway]

The Oxford Companions are published by Oxford University Press. (I am waiting on the China and Southeast Asian food volumes.)

http://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-companions-oc/?cc=us&lang=en&

Johnnae 

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> On Nov 28, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Patricia Dunham <chimene at ravensgard.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks much for the info!
>> On Nov 27, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> How about Doc's book? Recipes from the Wagstaff Miscellany. Same manuscript as found in An Ordinance of Pottage. It's online but it's worth having a bound copy for the shelf. It's a good stocking stuffer. 
> got it last year
>> 
>> Last year we had the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. This year we have the Oxford Companion to Cheese! Yes, all you Cheese mavens should grab a copy! 849 pages.
> hmm, Oxbow, Prospect, or????
>> 
>> One really fun title that just arrived here is: Make: Edible Inventions Cooking hacks, and Yummy Inventions You can build, mix, bake, and grow. Another stocking stuffer. 
> ooh, Make! thx will pass this one on 
> 
>> BTW--- Prospect Books has confirmed that the new Zinziber: Sauces from Poitou volume will not be out this year. They are still awaiting the manuscript from the author. Maybe in 2017.
> AAARGH!  and   SIGHHHH!  not as if it hasn’t happened before, though… Himself waited for literally decades for the Icelandic Laws title, Gragas! (that’s right, v.1, 1980; v.2 2000; one of the major writers & translator, Peter Foote, DIED in 2009, so v.3 may never happen, at least not in our lifetimes!
>> 
>> Meanwhile I just reviewed Peter Brears huge volume on Tudor-Stuart cooking and dining. Review
>> Is in latest issue of Tournaments Illuminated. Highly recommended 
> also received this one last year (ooh, spell-check is SUCH a nuisance!)
> 
> thx again,
> Chimney
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