ANST - Stargate Steak Feast

Decker, Terry D. TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Tue Sep 8 06:24:33 PDT 1998



> So I don't think that we can assume that steaks were not eaten in period.
> 
> 
> 
>                                 ---= Morgan (not a Laurel, have far
>                                         too much attitude for that)
> 
Well, there is a piece of the Bayeux Tapestry where the cook is forking up
something that looks suspiciously like a steak.

The word steak appears to derive from the Old Norse, steik.  According to
the quick ref, Old Norse disappears into the various Germanic languages
about mid-14th Century, so based on the surface linguistic evidence, I would
say steaks were eaten in period.

There is also a steak recipe in Maggie Black's The Medieval Cookbook, which
I have casually looked at in passing.  I think I'll take a closer look this
evening.

Bear
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