SC - Celtic Foods
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Thu Jul 3 09:23:29 PDT 1997
Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 2-Jul-97 SC - Re: sca-cooks
V1 #184 Elise Fleming @ix.netcom (676)
> >Well, if you're talking about the early Celtic peoples of Britian,
> >they didn't eat rabbit because rabbits didn't exist in England much
> >before the Normans. I believe they were a Norman import (again,
> >working from memory, I believe the source is Ann Wilson's Food and
> >Drink in Britian)
> From Maggie Black's _A Taste of History_, page 63, "The Evidence for
> the Foods Eaten in Roman Britain": "Not only were large game kept in
> parks, small game such as hares were kept in 'leporia' or hare gardens
> attached to the villas of the more well-eo-do Romas so that they would
> be quickly available when needed for the table."
Yup, figured out shortly after posting that the word I was remembering
was "Roman" not "Norman".
toodles, margaret
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