The Oxford Companion to Food, by Alan Davidson, in Tom Jaine's second edition from Oxford University Press in 2006, is the standard English-language food reference work. Its strength is that it is a rigorously edited academic reference with a dedicated entry on Simnel Cake describing the eleven marzipan ball apostle tradition and marzipan's history as a costly festival decoration. Its limit is the ordinary one for a reference encyclopedia: entries are necessarily concise summaries rather than extended original research.
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Tier one: the standard English language food reference work from Oxford University Press, a rigorously edited academic reference with a dedicated entry on Simnel Cake's marzipan ball apostle tradition. Its limit is the ordinary one for a reference encyclopedia: entries are necessarily concise summaries rather than extended original research. NotesThe standard English-language food reference work, first published 1999, second edition 2006. Carries a dedicated Simnel Cake entry describing the eleven-marzipan-ball apostle tradition and marzipan's history as a costly festival decoration. Use for the Simnel Cake fact.
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AuthorAlan Davidson, edited by Tom Jaine (2nd edition)
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2006
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sacred Foods, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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