SC - period feast menus

[david friedman]

At 11:04 AM +0000 11/14/97, Mark Harris wrote:
>David/Cariadoc said:
>
>>Chiquart makes it clear that he intends to serve two meals each day. The
>>big 16th c. German cookbook I have (admittedly, a little late for medieval)
>>gives lots of menus, each in the form of an early meal and a night meal, I
>>assume lunch and dinner.
>
>Cariadoc, what is the name of this German cookbook?

It is by Max Rumpolt; I'll have some of it up on my page soon.

>Is there an English
>translation?

Not yet--do you have any volunteers.

>I have a little bit on period feast menus in my file p-menus-msg. I would
>love to have more actual menus or referances for this file. Does anyone
>have good recommendation for where people should go look for period menu
>examples. (hmmm. And I mean the book names, not "the library". shesh.)

Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books has very high class menus. _Le
Menagier_ has much less pretentious ones.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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