SOLVED. Book of extant culinary MSS [s]

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

See above. ;) It was a discussion of the cooking manuscripts from medieval Europe that have survived to the present day. It was a small book - not very thick, and slightly smaller than a DVD case. The cover may have been dark.

I think the author was male, and possibly French. The book may or may not have been translated to English from a European language. The only thing I can really remember is that it cited or mentioned Barbara Santich's dissertation "Two Languages, Two Cultures, Two Cuisines: A Comparative Study of the Culinary Cultures of Northern and Southern France, Italy and Catalonia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries."

I think it was published in this decade or the late 90s, but I'm not at all sure. Help?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Is it "The Neapolitan recipe collection: (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS ...) by Terence Scully"? It has a dark cover and cites Santich.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

First, thanks for posting. I really appreciate it, but I'm leaning toward no. The book I'm thinking of was more a survey of what's out there than a focus on one particular source. And also the Scully book is thicker than the one I recall. :)

[Mir]

Nikki, are you at a university now? If so their library may subscribe to a citation-finder via JSTOR or some other reference program. You could put in Santich's work and see who mentions it.

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

No, but I could get access to one ... does JSTOR also index books, and not just journal articles?

[Meghan]

It looks like Bruno Laurioux has quite a few books on medieval cuisine, including:
Les Livres de cuisine médiévaux (Turnhout, Belgium, 1997) and
Une histoire culinaire du Moyen Âge, (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2005).

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

YES! I'm 99% positive it's Les livres that I'd read. Thank you. :)