SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #184

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings!  Margaret wrote:

>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."

Alys Katharine