Comments on: Gode Cookery

Gode Cookery

hama7 — Fri, 07 May 2004 09:32:15 -0800

Gode Cookery: Medieval & Renaissance food & cookery, and more.

By: headspace

headspace — Fri, 07 May 2004 10:07:13 -0800

{thys is gode}

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Fri, 07 May 2004 10:32:26 -0800

And readith "The Closet of Sir Kenelme Digby Knight Opened" to not only gettd food and beir methods, but also tales of the tails he did have.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Fri, 07 May 2004 10:58:00 -0800

If Ye Olde Nerds had cut the fake-anachronistic spelling, I would have read more. The main attraction of a Renaissance Fair isn't the 8 dollar turkey legs. It's buttcracks and modern eyeglasses sticking out of plastic platemail.

By: dirtylittlemonkey

dirtylittlemonkey — Fri, 07 May 2004 11:41:49 -0800

I've actually used this site before as a good (pun resisted) source of woodblock print images.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Fri, 07 May 2004 13:06:47 -0800

If Ye Olde Nerds had cut the fake-anachronistic spelling, I would have read more. Mayor Curley, please point me to one instance of fake anachronistic spelling on the site. Yes, certainly some of the spelling is different from modern spelling, but this site is a well-respected, well-established source for redacted and recreated medieval and renaissance cookery, and I've never seen them use cutesy spellings such as you suggest for any reason, despite having used them extensively for both research and preparation of historical foods. When transcribing material from historical documents its often important in understanding the sense of the text to preserve the original spelling. Anyhow, enough ranting. Other great web resources for historical European foods include: The Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage Cariadoc's Miscellany and Cindy Renfrow's Culinary & Brewing History Links I'd also encourage anyone interested to check out the Big List of (primary source) Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Fri, 07 May 2004 14:03:23 -0800

Curley, I have a photocopy of "The Closet of Sir Kenelme Digby Knight Opened" and the only difference on the cock-ale recipe on page 147 is a , rather than a ;.

By: hama7

hama7 — Fri, 07 May 2004 14:21:21 -0800

Thanks for the excellent links, anastasiav. Much appreciated.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Fri, 07 May 2004 14:24:03 -0800

I'm not taking issue with the individual recipes, just the index page. I'm just saying that I'd prefer it if he said "Here are a bunch of recipes from historical sources" instead of "Welcome to Ye Olde Barne Shoppe." Like anastasia's last link-- now that's cool. I once ate at this place once and loved it. Once we convinced the waiter to get out of character.