New Recipes: Exceptional Yeast Cakes
I enjoy going back to my old alma mater for a number of reasons. I went up in October to interview some undergrads for work, and also to celebrate homecoming, but I had enough time to sneak into the library and snag some books. I was hoping to find some of the source texts that I couldn't find online, and I did, but what I found just looking around the library at random near the books I had identified turned out to be extremely valuable as well: 齐民要术校释 That book is " The Annotated Qimin Yaoshu ," and I bought a copy from amazon.cn to have for myself. Sort of like how you might have read annotated editions of Shakespeare in high school, it has a ton of footnotes explaining character issues, typos, and more importantly, interpreting and explaining hard to understand passages: 足 手熟揉為佳 does not mean, "roll the cooked grain using your feet and hands until done," it means "roll more grain into the cakes using your hands until they are done." ...