SC - Emeril on medieval cooking

[Adler, Chris]

I find this intriguing and await the hard information to track down.  It
would be way fun to be able to document the use if Kiwi fruits (by any
name) as a commonly used fruit in medieval Europe.  Gerard mentions all
sorts of plants (accurately and inaccurately it seems) and the reference
to this particular plant, its use and its use as foodstuff will be fun
information to propagate and act upon when we get it.  Thanks.  Do you
know when she will be available for discourse on this?

niccolo difrancesco

DeSevyngy at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/14/00 6:49:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> stefan at texas.net writes:
> 
> <<Lady Constance, if you are reading this, I would be very interested
>  in publishing your documentation in the Florilegium. Or seperate
>  articles on things like constructing the brick oven, the salt an
>  the docs you have on salt refining in the MA, your experiences in
>  refining the sugar, your experiences in hand-grinding the flour, making the
> malt vinegar and probably others. Please contact me if
>  you are interested. >>
> 
> Constance de LaRose is taking a much deserved mundane vacation this week.
> While she did drop off this list, she did so because of the volume and too
> little time with A&S coming up, and I surely will try to get her to come back
> on. I am in contact with her and will tweek her arm to get her to forward the
> files on.  Tweeking is neccesary, you see, because the sweet woman does not
> see the true value of what she has accomplishes in the SCA. We drove from
> Salt Lake City, Ut to Missoula, Mt with her trying to get us to turn around
> and go home the whole time.  The truly sick thing about this marvolous gal,
> is that she had FUN doing the documentaion.
> 
> One thing that I noticed was not mentioned is that she has proven that the
> "Kiwi-fruit" is period!!  Now before you jump on this one, let me tell you
> (briefly) how.  You see the New Zelanders that grew and marketed Kiwi earlier
> this century, knew they could not market it under the name of the plants they
> brought back from a trip to Europe. This plant was Chinese goose berry.  Then
> my sick and twisted fiend of a friend tracked the latin (don't recall of the
> top of my head) name for Chinese goose berry, traced the latin to Gerard, and
> beloved Gerard references the latin name as, of all things, as prickley goose
> berry.  Yes, prickly goose berry.  I can hear the book covers creaking.  Go
> look it up, Gerard expounds on this fruit as being perfect to sooth a
> irritated stomach.  She combined another well known stomach soothing fruit
> (mango), stomach soothing Cardamon and a wheat vodka from a company chartered
> in 1561 and entered a lovely liquor, the bottle didn't last past 6pm.  We've
> told her she must bottle more as 'Royal Hooch", the Queen found the flavor
> sublte, surprising and very enjoyable.  Granted though, my all too brief
> sketch of _how_ she arrived at the conclusion surely is missing a step or
> too, but I tell you so that you can gain a brief understanding about how her
> mind works.
> 
> All this because she was told 'oh, kiwi is _not_ period.'
> 
> Sick, I tell you.  Positively demented.  We call her Guido, as she just has
> this way of putting things so you can't refuse! And we won't give her up for
> anything!
> 
> And I really can not wait until she gets home from vacation and sees all the
> post (here and elsewhere) about her.  She won't stop blushing for a week!
> 
> Isabeau
> 
> HL Isabeau deSevyngy
> Squired to Sir Sakura kita no Maikeru
> Shire of Gryphons Lair
> Artemisia
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