SC - Recipes for Emeril Live: #EM1D04: Medieval Cuisine

[Alderton, Philippa]

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From: <CBlackwill at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: SC - Medieval Times


> Medieval Times is a dinner show.  It's not a historical re-creation.  .  .
It's a DINNER
> SHOW!  Entertainment for the masses.  How many of you on this list who are
> ridiculing this company for their "unauthenticity" actually use period
> stitches when making your garb?   Let he who
> is without sin cast the first stone

 Balthazar of Blackmoor
>
> Complacency Breeds Contempt

Lord Balthazar,
I am not without "sin" as you put it, but The one website I saw Listed the
King and Queen as Don Alphonso and Inez,  Those are Spanish names, Medieval
Times is set in the 11th Century (1000's for those who have trouble with
that) Spain was firmly Moorish at the time, Also the Garb/costumes of the
people where clearly Ren. Potatoes and BBQ not withstanding this place could
use a small amount of historical inquiry, Man had Knifes in the 1000's, How
else would they kill the chicken, And Soup was eaten either with bread, or a
SPOON, I am not going to argue the fork, it seems it didn't come into
fashion until late period.

It is the Bad History at some Ren. Faires, and places like Medieval Times
that make Historians like myself Cringe. Knowing our children are learning
myths as facts.  History is not a well liked subject in the schools as it
is, we don't need mythmakers clouding the issues.

Thorbjorn Bjornson
Mka Michael Newton  M.A. History SMSU 1991