SC - Re:Was Pennsic Cookshop now Salads in period

[ChannonM at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/29/00 7:56:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jadwiga 
Zajaczkowa, writes:

> Perhaps it was a renaissance fashion, to eat fresh greens in spring?
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In addition to the references you note , Apicius (1st C-4th C AD) has recipes 
for salads and dressings, so does Platina (15th C Italian) has recipes and 
references and descriptions of salads and their medicinal value. In winter, 
there were winter greens (chard, kale, beet tops) in spring more variation. 
In every cooking manuscript or work of period that I can recall, there were 
salad type recipes. 

I think salads were more common than we are giving credit.

Hauviette