SC - I HAVE A THEORY

[Sharon R. Saroff]

This seems to be the case according to cooking historians such as Gil Marks
and Claudia Roden.  

Sindara

At 10:53 AM 6/21/00 EDT, you wrote:
>Even though my persona is not Jewish, I am very interested in how and what 
>the Jews of the Middle Ages and Renaissance cooked. The dishes they prepared.
>
>My theory is that they ate very closely to what the non Jews ate except that 
>they "koshered" it up.  ie: redid the recipe to fit their dietary needs.  I 
>do feel that they would have chosen from the foodstuffs locally available
and 
>made kosher versions of treif dishes.
>
>This is what my grandmother (coming from Russia) did when foods were less 
>widely available then they are today.  (ie  oranges year round etc)
>
>Comments anyone?
>Phillipa
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