SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #184

[Gretchen M Beck]

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