SC - "Fooles and Friccasees" exhibit at the Folger

[Richard Keith]

In a message dated 11/1/99 7:22:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, kerelsen at ptd.net 
writes:

<< I went to Washington, DC ...<snip>...and made a point of visiting the 
Folger.  The exhibit  "Fooles  and Friccasees">>

Elysant and I also made it a point to drop by this exhibit on Monday. I 
concur. It was a wonderful presentation. I was especially excited about the 
pottery pieces of which a couple were virtually unchanged from their 13th 
century CE counterparts. The clay sauce pot with its three legs, shape and 
handle attachment was indistinguishable from the wonderful pieces created by 
Master Hroar.

<< an actual place setting >>

This particular case caught my attention for several minutes. If nothing 
else, it showed how short we, as recreationists, fall with regard to actual 
presentation and decoration in our SCA feasts.

<<with real  artifacts of the period >>

There were at least a half dozen cookery manuals and a couple of agricultural 
manuals that I have never seen referenced in anything I have studied. The 
orange custard recipe on one page in one of the books sounded like heaven. :-)


<< The best pieces I saw was a pair of pamphlets regarding coffee...>>

Weren't they fun? Elysant and I were so ingrossed in reading them that we 
became a little loud much to the amusement of the patrons who happened by. 
 
All in all this exhibit is a must for anyone interested in historical 
cookery. The hostess at the front desk, Ms. Anne-Marie Schiffen was very 
knowledgeable and helpful. Library staff was friendly and treated every 
inquiry as if it were the most important question they had been asked that 
day. I may have even convinced them to relegate 'Fabulous Feasts' to the back 
book room of the gift shop instead of displaying it prominently at the entry. 
;-)

Ras
(Who also visited Monticello this past weekend and increased his colonial 
cookbook collection by 8 new reproductions, as well as obtaining 14 varieties 
of herbs and vegetables dating from the early 1700s CE. Sea-kale, a perennial 
Cole and the theoretical precursor of cabbages being among them. :-))
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