SC - An article on medieval spices

[Mark.S Harris]

I was editing this message to put in my spices-msg file and thought
that some of you might find it interesting but not have seen it yet.

Can anyone tell me about this "Food and Foodways"? I assume it is
a journal of some type.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net

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From: Mark Shier <mark at medievalwares.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Spices
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:40:01 -0800
Organization: Island Net on Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

 Anyone interested  in medieval culinary spices should track down a copy of

"Spices in the Medieval Diet",  by Bruno Lauroix, in Food and Foodways
1, 1985, pp 43-76.

Lauriox uses account records, cookbooks and medical treatises to look
at spice use. Among other things, he concludes that the idea of pepper
being extremely expensive and restriced to the nobility is a modern
fiction. He is cautious on the amount of spices consumed, but he does
not think that consumption was much higher than today.

                            mark der gaukler
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