SC - Bread Soup Bowls

[Laura C Minnick]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> What did period folk do for food on the go? Did they always sit down to
> eat? We can't seem to find proof of sandwiches or breadbowls or flatbreads
> with meats in them (such as Greek Gyros or tortillas).

Stefan,

	In several of my 'pretty picture books' are pictures of what is
generally labelled (if at all) as a '14thc. ivory carving'- a triptyc with
a scene of the Madonna and CHild and worshipping angels below, and above a
tournament with jousting and ladies in the gallery. In one area, there is
two men and a woman looking over a crenellated edge at the scene below,
and one of the men is holding in his hand what I can only describe as a
Hostess Fruit Pie- you know, the half-moon shape, filled, and crimped
along the rounded edge. Given the particular contortions his face is in,
it looks as though he's eating, so I would gather he's nibbling on his
pie. What might be in the pie, I don't know. It could be what we call a
'Dariole', or it could be he went through the drive through of the local
Golden Arches on the way to the tourney and picked up one of those pyes
with the too-hot filling. Whatever- it looks like food too me. I can look
for a reference on the triptyc if you are desperate to see it.

'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick 
University of Oregon
Department of English
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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