On-Line Resources
Medieval Cookbooks
- Cosman, Madeleine Pelner. Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony. New
York: George Braziller, 1976. Recipes with a thorough essay on medieval food and notes
for modern feasts.
- Cosman, Madeleine Pelner. Medieval Holidays and Festivals: A Calendar of
Celebrations. New York: Scribner's, 1981. More recipes, with descriptions of
traditional entertainments appropriate to each month.
- Hieatt, Constance B., Brenda Hosington and Sharon Butler. Pleyn Delit: Medieval
Cookery for Modern Cooks. 2nd Ed. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1996. A
particularly wide range of recipes, including some Arabic ones; little on ceremonies.
Regularly quotes the original recipe, translating into English as needed.
- Scully, D. Eleanor and Terence Scully. Early French Cookery: Sources, History,
Original Recipes and Modern Adaptations. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1995. A
narrower focus than Pleyn Delit; gives not only the original recipe and the modern
translation, but illustrative comments from medieval medical and etiquette texts. Includes
some advice on costuming and other preparations.
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