Comments on: Eating with famous women http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/ Bringing families closer with children's books and a touch of cooking. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:28:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chocolate Recipes I Love http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/#comment-343 Chocolate Recipes I Love Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:22:37 +0000 http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/#comment-343 <strong>Carnival of Chocolate - Edition #4</strong> Welcome to the April 17, 2007 edition of carnival of chocolate. Check out these yummy articles! Anne-Marie presents Eating with famous women posted at A Readable Feast. The Crazy King of Clowns presents Chocolateism posted at Infinitely CRAZY. choco... Carnival of Chocolate - Edition #4

Welcome to the April 17, 2007 edition of carnival of chocolate. Check out these yummy articles!
Anne-Marie presents Eating with famous women posted at A Readable Feast.
The Crazy King of Clowns presents Chocolateism posted at Infinitely CRAZY.
choco…

]]> By: Anne-Marie - A Readable Feast and This Mama Cooks! http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/#comment-342 Anne-Marie - A Readable Feast and This Mama Cooks! Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:58:47 +0000 http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/#comment-342 Gillian has some good points here. I got my copy of the book and it’s more based on the author's study of culinary history than necessarily a real meal the women ate. She gives historical facts (like tomatoes were from the New World) and a recipe that gives the reader a feel for something close to what these real people in history may have eaten. The recipes are practical – you can make them at home with readily available ingredients. So I would say this is a book for entertainment, discussion, and thinking about the people and times involved. Think of it like having a book club party – like I did recently with my friends. We read A Passage to India and I made curry (http://mamarant.blogs.com/mamacooks/2007/01/weight_watchers.html), a red dahl soup (http://mamarant.blogs.com/mamacooks/2007/01/cooking_lights__1.html), another gal made chana masala (http://mamarant.blogs.com/mamacooks/2007/02/chana_masala_an.html) and others brought Indian bread from a local restaurant. It set the mood, and made for good conversation. So have fun with Eating With Famous Women and let the food bring you back in time. Gillian has some good points here. I got my copy of the book and it’s more based on the author’s study of culinary history than necessarily a real meal the women ate.

She gives historical facts (like tomatoes were from the New World) and a recipe that gives the reader a feel for something close to what these real people in history may have eaten.

The recipes are practical – you can make them at home with readily available ingredients. So I would say this is a book for entertainment, discussion, and thinking about the people and times involved.

Think of it like having a book club party – like I did recently with my friends. We read A Passage to India and I made curry (http://mamarant.blogs.com/mamacooks/2007/01/weight_watchers.html), a red dahl soup (http://mamarant.blogs.com/mamacooks/2007/01/cooking_lights__1.html), another gal made chana masala (http://mamarant.blogs.com/mamacooks/2007/02/chana_masala_an.html) and others brought Indian bread from a local restaurant. It set the mood, and made for good conversation.

So have fun with Eating With Famous Women and let the food bring you back in time.

]]> By: Gillian Polack http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/#comment-341 Gillian Polack Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:28:25 +0000 http://www.myreadablefeast.com/2007/03/09/eating-with-famous-women/#comment-341 Can I give a caution about this book? I would borrow it from the library before I bought it, simply because it gives food history for places and times about which we know very little. If I see a copy I'll check if the writer knows sources I know nothing of, but otherwise it might be one of those fun volumes that aren't entirely reliable. Chapter 1 is particularly liable to error, though I'm also fascinated by what the writer makes of the Middle Ages. Where we only have one recorded cookbook (or even none) to cover hundreds of years and three countries, we can't know what an individual ate unless it's - say - at a particular coronation where the menu gets recroded. Writing down menus is something that happens increasingly frequently the closer we get to the present. It's a fascinating concept for a book, however, and I love the choc-chip cookie information. You can never have too many chocolate-chip biscuit recipes :). Can I give a caution about this book? I would borrow it from the library before I bought it, simply because it gives food history for places and times about which we know very little. If I see a copy I’ll check if the writer knows sources I know nothing of, but otherwise it might be one of those fun volumes that aren’t entirely reliable. Chapter 1 is particularly liable to error, though I’m also fascinated by what the writer makes of the Middle Ages. Where we only have one recorded cookbook (or even none) to cover hundreds of years and three countries, we can’t know what an individual ate unless it’s - say - at a particular coronation where the menu gets recroded. Writing down menus is something that happens increasingly frequently the closer we get to the present. It’s a fascinating concept for a book, however, and I love the choc-chip cookie information. You can never have too many chocolate-chip biscuit recipes :).

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