"Father Ignatius" > wrote in message
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>
> A different recipe book, that covers this area, is "Lobscouse and
> Spotted Dog: Which Is a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin
> Novels" by Grossman and Grossman, foreword by Patrick O'Brian. "A
> scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthopology."
> (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393320944)
>
> Which we do no recall having seen Spotted Dick, not Boiled Baby, nor
> owt such else, served cold.

A good book indeed! I have it and have read it more than once or twice. But
surely it is a "triumph of culinary" history is it not? Anthropology ain't
in it.

Charlie