Seven Centuries of English Cooking
By:"Maxime de La Falaise","Arabella Boxer"
Published on 1994-01 by Grove Press
The hundreds of recipes in Maxime de la Falaise’s delight\u00adful book triumphantly attest to the virtues of Anglo-Saxon gastronomy. Rich with the historical sense of taste, this book allows you to cook the rudiments of a medieval royal banquet, an Elizabethan nursery breakfast, or an eighteenth-century tavern lunch. The recipes are divided into five chronological sections, each preceded by an introduction recounting the fashions and the changes in the food and drink of the period; together they provide an overview of the evolution of English cookery. The earliest recipes, dating from the thirteenth century, are presented in their original language (\
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