SC - Fw: [Trimaris] Recipe Help

[JVButlerJr@aol.com]

sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
> > All well and good, but do you have documentation that tomatoes were eaten in Europe during period? 

<<<<<<< I must ask this list what is considered European... 
    If you consider Hungary european, then you must certainly consider the Ottoman empire to be at least Eastern European.  If no other reason than the Turks ruled this land for several hundreds of years.
    If it is the intention of this list to confine their culinary talents to food served at the English and French courts, then please let me know, and I will find another list to explore my interests.
   Khadijah
    Sorry, but my turn on the soapbox regarding the often exhibited Anglo Saxon centric veiws of the SCA.  >>>>>>>>>>

I do disagree that this is an Anglo-centric community of scholars and craftspeople.  We have yearned for and devoured any source that purports to be primary sourcework for Eastern Europe.  A Taste of Honey is the closedt we have come, and it was somewhat diasppointing from a scholarly standpoint.

I, for one, BEG you to afford us the opportunity to see and use any sourcework you have regarding Eastern European/Ottoman cuisine and foodstuffs.  To date, the overwhleming majority of cookery sources have beem French, English, Italian and German (note the lsat two are not English or french courts).  We speak only from what is retrievable from the body of work we can access.  Recipes are not falling from trees for us in regards East of Venice.

I am sorry we have tripped your sensitivity to the focus in the SCA on Feudal European cultures.  Float out some ideas and confirmable sources, and we'll have a go at them.  One must have a body of information from which to work before one can, indeed, work.



niccolo difrancesco
c. 1285 CE, Perugia in the Papal State of Umbria, decidedly not the English or French courts.

p.s. Not to be argumentative, but this clip is from the SCA.org homepage under the link INTRODUCTION:

<<<SNIP>>> The avowed purpose of the SCA is the study and recreation of the European Middle Ages, its crafts, sciences, arts, traditions, literature, etc. The SCA "period" is defined to be Western civilization before 1600 AD, concentrating on the Western European High Middle Ages. Under the aegis of the SCA we study dance, calligraphy, martial arts, cooking, metalwork, stained glass, costuming, literature... well, if they did it, somebody in the SCA does it (Except die of the Plague!).  (reference: http://www.sca.org/sca-intro.html   )