Meats/spices in MA (was Re: SC - I am So Ashamed! (long))

[Serian]

> 
> A look over Le Menagiers menus reveals a regularity, if not a superfluity,
> of beef. However, skimming some of the menus in Two 15th c. coookbooks
> doesn't show ANY beef that I recognized!
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise        

This points to the caution that finding a food common in one
country or region doesn't make it common everywhere in
period.  (I'm fairly new at period cooking; this is one of
the most important lessons I've learned from cooks here
present)

Serian