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[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>Actually, if you really go back a ways, Sicily was a Phoenician colony. The
>Phoenicians were a branch of the Canaanites who hit the road (or sea) after
>enduring a round of Deistic urban renewal. They founded Carthage, and
>established colonies all about northern Africa and extreme southern Europe.
>     If the SCA hasn't a real beginning point, I always thought that a late
>Phoenician / Carthaginian (victim of the Carthaginian Diaspora) persona
>would be neat.
>     So who's got what on Phoenician cuisine?
>
>     Sieggy

Yup, i sent similar info to this thread under a slightly different header.

No recipes have survived, but i have a limited amount of information 
on their food on one of my non-SCA websites:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2938

I think it's on the History and Culture page.

Of course there's always that ancient (BCE) Mesopotamian cookbook, 
the real thing, that i mentioned a few days ago...

Anahita al-Kananiyya, well, not really, but...