SC - Re: garum in Anthimus

[david friedman]

At 9:10 AM -0500 3/19/00, ChannonM at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 3/19/00 9:01:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:
>
><< Do you know of any post-roman cookbooks that use garum? >>
>
>In Mark Grant's On the Observance of Foods, a 6th Century letter to the King
>of the Franks,
>
>fish sauce is metioned ,sometimes Anthimus discourages it's use, sometimes
>encouraging it.

Fair enough--I hadn't thought of Anthimus. But it's barely post 
Roman, and, like Apicius, pretty early for most SCA feasts.

David/Cariadoc
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