SC - Re:New World Foods-list penguins are period

[Richard Keith]

At 09:59 AM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:

Glad to hear someone besides myself had heard the story.  Awaiting 
documentation.

Please note, I was not my intention to suggest that Penguins were to be 
considered a stable or normal portion of  any  western medieval European 
diet.  I was only stating that they had been seen and reportedly eaten 
within our period.   After all they have such 
small  wings.(heehhehe).  That being said, I must agree that I would not 
expect to see them at a feast and must agree that they are a new World food.

>References to the eating of things by Sailors, especially those on long 
>voyages, should
>NEVER be taken as an implication that these items were ever a part of the 
>common
>cuisine of Nobles, or indeed of any but sailors facing the harsh reality 
>of starvation.
>How often do we read of Sailors cannabalizing the dead, or their 
>prisoners? We do
>not interpret this to mean that _People_ were a regular part of the Typical
>Rennaissance larder.


Be careful, I can see a new Household in  the SCA forming, and I would hate 
to be part of their feasts.

Frederich