SC - medieval courses
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Mon May 12 11:58:38 PDT 1997
Ok. I've not made a study of this. So can you give us a synopsis of
what the "medieval European's view of a course" was? And I don't
really mean "On the left was the salt cellar, in front of him was
his plate,..." :-)
I haven't made a "study" of this either. But I have read a few menus.
To my mind, a period course would be a small meal of mixed and various
dishes. A multi-course meal would be several of these courses. Whereas, to
the modern taste a course has a different purpose, and therefore each course
has a label: appetizer, pasta, fish, dessert, sorbet, entree, etcetera.
Tibor
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