SC - Muslim Sicilian recipes?
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 10 10:45:44 PST 2001
On Feb 10, 2001
in the thread titled Re: SC - Re: theme menus
Vincente Cuenca wrote:
>I've been discussing this same topic with Ras on another list; the
>general consensus I've been finding among the "experts" (Revel,
>Scully, Santich, et. al.) is that there was a lot of recipe trading
>going on. Revel identifies recipes in Taillevent from "Forme of
>Cury" as well as some German and even Muslim Sicilian ones. De Nola
>has French mustard, Genovese tart, and a whole slew of German
>bruets. The "mig-raust" in "Sent Sovi" shows up in Platina as
>"Mirause" and de Nola as "Mirrauste". Everybody and his brother has
>some variation on blancmange. Even if you work from one source, you
>may end up doing the same sort of mix-and-match you were trying to
>avoid in the first place, since they were apparently doing it back
>then. Nobody actually says "I got this recipe from X manuscript"
>(except for Platina maybe, but he's a rare fellow anyway), but it is
>possible to trace provenances.
So:
1) who is Revel? What books has s/he written that are relevant to our topics?
2) which recipes does Revel identify as Muslim Sicilian?
Thanks,
Anahita
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