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Tuesday 15 November 2005
Fish sauce: Charles Perry's work on its medieval analogues
C. Perry, 'Medieval Near Eastern rotted condiments' in Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1987: taste. Proceedings (London: Prospect Books, 1988) pp. 169-177.
Later he made further experiments, and contributed notes to Petits propos culinaires nos 58 and 61 (1998-9), reprinted in The wilder shores of gastronomy ed. Alan Davidson, Helen Saberi. Berkeley, California (Ten Speed Press, 2002) pp. 358-362.
Around this time he was also writing on the subject in the Los Angeles Times: ALL THE LOST FLAVORS May 18, 1995; ROT SAUCE December 21, 1995; WHAT ROT! January 14, 1998; STILL ROTTING February 18, 1998; O. K., IT'S ROTTED, IS IT SAFE? April 1, 1998; ROT OF AGES April 1, 1998; GOT ROTTED MILK? September 2, 1998.