ANST - Stargate Steak Feast
j'lynn yeates
jyeates at bga.com
Mon Sep 7 23:49:45 PDT 1998
On 7 Sep 98, at 23:01, Russell wrote:
> While steaks may be good food and appealing to many, they are not a
> particularly medieval cuisine. It is really no more difficult to
> prepare good, plentiful, tasty medieval dishes than it is to prepare
> modern foods.
modern foods ???? ... not really
let's see, the keltoi were infamous cattle-lords and consuming of large
quantities of dead & seared animal is mentioned from their earliest epics
(though they would take pork over beef when available ... ) .. and since it's
also a modern thing, so i would bet that since the medieval period was in
between, it existed then as well.
point to remember, cattle were often worth too much to eat regularly unless
you were *very* wealthy ... in northern, less than fertile climes, they would
not be as plentiful as in cultures such as ours that developed them as a
"factory" food (raised in mass quantities, in a environment that could be
turned to their production)
so, that in mind, steaks (aka slabs of dead beef warmed over a fire ...)
would have been a mark of the aristocracy and warrior elites ...
i've been to *many* feasts, and to be quite honest, i would much rather
have a decent steak than some of the culinary disasters that i've sampled
(everyone praises the successful feasts, but what about the infamous
disasters (g)
'wolf
'wolf
... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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