Petits Propos Culinaires 93
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Typically Petites Propos Culinaires is an assortment of articles, notated facimilies and translations both scholarly and observational orbiting around topics of food history, but occasionally they dedicate a full issue to a new translation or translation in progress of a historic work. This is one of those issues, featuring The Treatise of Walter Bibbesworth translated into English by Walter Dalby with extensive context and translation notes.
The events of the story take place in the early 1230's in Herfordshire, the treatise is written in verse and describes both the natural world around the estate as well as the ways that food would be cooked, prepared, and preserved within it.
As always, book reviews are also present.