SC - pasta info and recipes

[Stefan li Rous]

Brian Songy asked:

>Obligatory cooking comment:  When was grappa (and other brandies) first 
>made in Northern Italy?  What foods were commonly eaten in Venice in 
>~1250CE ?  Tomato sauces?  Pasta?  Polenta?  Pizza?

It has been made quite clear here over the past year that Pasta definitely
was eaten from early in medieval times, although some types of pasta and
definitely any tomato sauces are more recent. Take a look at this file in
my Stefan's Florilegium for some more info on pasta and many recipes:

pasta-msg         (48K)  3/17/98    Period pasta. Period referances. Recipes.

Polenta has been mentioned too, but I don't remember if there is much in my
files or not. Pizza-like foods have also been mentioned. Of course, these
didn't have tomato sauce either. I don't think I have put the few comments
on pizza in my files yet.

My files are at: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
============================================================================

To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".

============================================================================