tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post8649419190707267705..comments2024-03-23T12:05:13.464-07:00Comments on Ideas: How to Milk an Almond, ... is now availableDavid Friedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-41142797147885274402011-06-17T19:06:46.622-07:002011-06-17T19:06:46.622-07:00Very interesting cookbook. A couple of years ago ...Very interesting cookbook. A couple of years ago I found an 18th century cookbook referenced in a sausage cookbook I had, as the source for the ancestor of basically all of the breakfast sausage recipes used today. The cookbook was 'The Art of Cookery', by Hannah Glasse, published in 1774. I found a PDF of it from Google, and have tried to use a few recipes from it. It should be fun to try some even earlier recipes.Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02735130166169369069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-42522896864986058702011-06-17T08:04:48.563-07:002011-06-17T08:04:48.563-07:00My profound thanks for this.
Used to have a book o...My profound thanks for this.<br />Used to have a book of early English recipes back in the UK. Got borrowed, of course &........<br />Before it absconded I'd worked through quite a few & found the different palette of tastes fascinating. Using pounded chicken breast with honey & fruit as a pudding course for instance.<br />Amusingly, the book included the menu served to Good Queen Bess's court when they stayed at the manor of our local lord, the descendent of whom was an occasional drinking companion at the local pub. It included enough meat to provide each diner with 7 1/2 pounds. Cholesterol was, apparently, not an issue in the 16th century.<br />The great thing about old recipes is that they don't presume a microwave, food processor or the rest of a modern kitchen. Perfect as I now spend so much time in a remote, off grid house in the mountains cooking with a wood stove.bloke in spainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-54307849249237697152011-06-17T07:44:48.369-07:002011-06-17T07:44:48.369-07:00David, if you are not aware of this already, you w...David, if you are not aware of this already, you would probably find various comments by/about Joe Konrath of interest -- see various links here:<br /><br />http://www.techdirt.com/search.php?cx=partner-pub-4050006937094082%3Acx0qff-dnm1&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=konrath<br /><br />Couple other points. You no longer have to buy the review copy from CreateSpace (I think); you can approve it as-is, without seeing a physical copy.<br /><br />Second, another thing you might try is add a discount code to your CreateSpace version, knocking off $2-4 so that the customer can buy it cheaper, but you get the same royalty as you do on an Amazon sale. I'm doing this with Libertarian Papers. It's easy to create and add the discount code in the CreateSpace system.<br /><br />BTW according to Mike Masnick at TechDirt, Alexa gives inaccurate rankings for sites and traffic. <br /><br />FYI I am experimenting myself with a variety of publishing formats: I have some standard legal treatises with Oxford (some just taken over by West)--those are traditional, paper, and very expensive; some I self-publish (LibertarianPapers); some with Mises, which publishes them for free and for sale, and with copyright restrictions largely lifted; and I have a legal dictionary coming out in a few weeks from Quid Pro book, an interesitng hybrid publisher in New Orleans, which pays much higher royalties, similar to self-pub, and very ebook savvy (Alan Childress, Tulane law prof, is the brainchild behind it). http://quidprolaw.com/Stephan Kinsellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07986650653184633661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-35103199342521897162011-06-17T01:38:05.729-07:002011-06-17T01:38:05.729-07:00Yes, I'd be interested in your thoughts on fic...Yes, I'd be interested in your thoughts on fiction writing. I have no hesitation in saying that you're better at it than I am...Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661031964537092605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-63190873735335420162011-06-17T01:02:26.759-07:002011-06-17T01:02:26.759-07:00Yes, as a wannabe writer I would also like to read...Yes, as a wannabe writer I would also like to read more about novel writing. (I'm at the stage where I bought about 20 books on the subject :P)Marcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13951354231483245521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-39523446101949793252011-06-16T22:41:38.114-07:002011-06-16T22:41:38.114-07:00As someone who dabbles in writing from time to tim...As someone who dabbles in writing from time to time, I would enjoy a post on your methods of composing. It's something authors don't often mention (trade secret?) that I think most readers would really appreciate.Jared Imblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855349320533330288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-39121871443748737772011-06-16T16:45:35.731-07:002011-06-16T16:45:35.731-07:00Do you personally pronounce Almond like "Salm...Do you personally pronounce Almond like "Salmon" or like "Frond"? If confused, ask students from the Central Valley, prefereably Ripon.$9,000,000,000 Write Offhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14455548811771787363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-86244299752629152002011-06-16T16:34:29.171-07:002011-06-16T16:34:29.171-07:00To John David Galt:
1. You can get a free Kindle ...To John David Galt:<br /><br />1. You can get a free Kindle reading app for your desktop--or your cell phone, for that matter.<br /><br />2. If that isn't satisfactory, email me and I can send you a Word file or pdf of the book. What I would ask in return is that if you like it you put a review on the Amazon page, and whether or not you like it you send me any comments you think useful.David Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-76987494607339897572011-06-16T16:32:17.148-07:002011-06-16T16:32:17.148-07:00I fixed the pdf link.
I don't currently have ...I fixed the pdf link.<br /><br />I don't currently have plans to publish _Salamander_ in hardcopy, although given how easy publishing the cookbook was I may do so at some point. Alternatively, if it does well as a Kindle, it's possible that a commercial publisher would be interested in bringing it out.<br /><br />My current project is the Miscellany, a book on my and my wife's medieval hobbies that will be in its tenth edition when it comes out from CreateSpace, and will include the cookbook as its first part.David Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-55904366988171161072011-06-16T14:42:10.434-07:002011-06-16T14:42:10.434-07:00Here's a working link:
http://www.daviddfried...Here's a working link:<br /><br />http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/To_Milk_an_Almond.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-38465868461908905042011-06-16T13:36:43.270-07:002011-06-16T13:36:43.270-07:00Your link to the free PDF doesn't work: "...Your link to the free PDF doesn't work: ".pdf" is not a top-level Internet domain.<br /><br />I would be interested in buying "Salamander" if it is ever available as a book or in some form I can download, but I don't have or want a Kindle. Is there any plan to publish it in some other form? Thanks.jdgalthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13236899779621301830noreply@blogger.com