SC - Viking and early Irish foods

[david friedman]

At 5:15 PM +0100 3/18/98, Par Leijonhuvud wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
>
>> I know of no extant cookbooks from the Viking age or early Irish. BUT....
>
>Neither do I, and I don't think they existed in the case of the Viking
>era: not that kind of literacy. Also: no books!

We have books--but not cookbooks--from not long after the Viking era.

>> we have a 13th century European cookbook that was found in Scandinavia. The
>> recipeis for the most part are very similar to the rest of the French and
>> English corpus of the time, with a few differences. There's nothing to say
>> that this is the food that the Vikings ate, though. You can get this in
>> Cariadoc's collection.  Yum! Chicken Pastellum!
>
>Someone once upon a time claimed that that one was actually most likely
>a local copy of some Continental work.

Rudlolf Grewe did some work on a group of daughter manuscripts from a lost
original, of which the Icelandic is one. His conclusion was that the
original was southern european.

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


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