British Museum Cookbook

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Summary: Recipes not temporally correct
Review: Inspired by the collections in the British Museum (you might have guessed that from the title), this book contains recipes "to recreate a flavour of what fashionable ancient Greek society in Athens, Anglo-Saxon peasants in their villages... or late medieval Frenchmen might have eaten."

Unfortunately, since there are no known original recipes from the Aztecs, for example, the author has neglected to give any source material. In the "Classical Greece" section tomatoes and potatoes are specifically excluded [good] but an "Ancient Egypt" recipe calls for coffee [very bad]. I wouldn't use this as a reliable source when so many better-documented books are out there.