SC - Period Feasts/modern tastes

[david friedman]

At 8:35 AM -0700 10/15/98, Karen wrote:

>I think that emotionally some of it stems back to what I call the
>Victorian attitude.  Basically that 19th Century Englishmen (not
>women, and not anything buy white) were the height of creation, and
>that anything that came before were ignorant.

More specifically, look at the introduction to _Two Fifteenth Century
Cookery Books_, written in the late 19th century. There is a comment about
our ancestors' strong stomachs, as illustrated by the cinnamon soup on page
...  . You turn to the page in question and discover that it is not a
recipe but a menu. So the very fact that they put cinnamon in soup proves
that their food would be unpalatable to modern people! I think that tells
us more about 19th century English cooking than about 15th century English
cooking.

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


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