SC - Venetian Supremacy
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Tue Nov 16 20:48:57 PST 1999
In a message dated 11/16/99 10:06:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rkappler at home.com writes:
<< The Hanseatic League
controlled the Baltic, North Sea and their environs commercially and
politically from ca 13th to the early to mid 16th century.
regards, Puck >>
I still feel that this explanation is far from accurate from the perspective
that you present it in. Given they may have controlled the selling wares in
the Northern barbaric regions but the bottom line is that without the Middle
eastern importers and their interaction with the traders from said barbaric
areas, those barbarians would have been flavoring their foods with sage,
thyme and hyssop. Cinnamon, grains, pepper and nutmeg would not have been
known. Written records show this NOT to be the case. Indeed, period cookery
manuals from the North show these items is common use among the nobility and,
I still contend, were in common use because of the will of Allah. :-)
Ras
============================================================================
To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".
============================================================================
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list