EARLIEST ENGLISH COOKBOOK, FORME OF CURY, TO BE DIGITIZED
Yippee! Another ancient cookbook to be digitized so that all of us food history lovers can wallow in the old texts without sneezing from the dust or going broke on airfare fees flying to check out archival material in some out-of-the-way library half-way across the world. The Guardian announced recently that the University of Manchester plans to digitize The Forme of Cury, a fourteenth-century cookbook compiled by King Richard II’s cooks. Food historian, Lorna Sass, wrote a cookbook about the […]
Categories: Cookbooks, English Cooking • Tags: Cookbooks, Cooking, English Cooking, Food, Forme of Cury