SC - 1.) Authenticity/Documentation 2.) Spain
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adl15.adelphi.edu
Fri Jun 6 08:36:16 PDT 1997
Joan Garner wrote:
> As I have been increasingly entranced lately by medieval Spanish
> music (I sing & play harp), I would like to learn more about
> the related food. Can anyone suggest a book, website or other
> source of recipes? Although a beginner to period cookery, I have
> worked professionally as a cook, so it doesn't have to be TOO
> simple-minded.
One place to look is Cariadoc's _Miscellany_, which contains a lot of
recipes from Arabo-Andalusian sources (as well as those from English,
French, German, and Persian sources). Volume II of Cariadoc's
_Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Cookbooks_ contains a complete
translation of the 13th-century Arabo-Andalusian cookbook. I wrote a
T.I. article about meatless dishes from this cookbook several years ago;
it's on the Web at "http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/veggie.html".
If you're more interested in Christian Spain, probably the best sources
are Catalan rather than "Spanish" proper: the 14th-century _Libre de
Sent Sovi_ and the late-15th or early-16th c. _Libre del Coch_. We did
a feast in February mostly from these two sources; see the Web page
"http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/cooking/st.val.feast.html" for menu
and example recipes.
mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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