SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #184
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Wed Jul 2 14:21:08 PDT 1997
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
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