[Sca-cooks] 12/13th Century feast

[Christina Nevin]

	Mari wrote
	BTW - I've been approached to Kitchen Steward a feast & provide the
menu for
	[sic] "12/13th Century feast" - haven't yet checked with organiser
for
	country of origin (I suspect it hasn't been considered just the time
period)
	- anyone able to suggest a good country somewhere within that time
period
	and point me towards a source or two??  (I've been mostly
concentrating on
	Italian 15thC+ & Middle Eastern recipes till now)

Saluti!

There are the two Anglo-Norman Cookbooks - the first, B.L.Add.32085, was
written early in the reign of Edward 1 (1272 - 1307), though the second, MS
Royal 12.C.xii was written around 1320-40. Both are written in Anglo-Norman
(whadda surprise!) so if that's the period you are looking for, they're
pretty much it. There isn't anything else. They are available in translation
in:
"Two Anglo-Norman Culinary Collections Edited from British Library
Manuscripts Additional 32085 & Royal 12.C. xii" HIEATT, Constance & JONES,
Robin F. Speculum Issue 61/4 1986
and I have a copy I can email or snailmail you if you like. I've done a
feast from these manuscripts and really enjoyed both the cooking and the
food. Heavy on the saffron though!

If, on the other hand you want to head east there is also the 1226 AD (or
623 AH) "Kitab al-tabikh" or "Baghdad Cookery Book", which is available in
translation in three sources:
- A Baghdad Cookery Book  ARBERRY, A.J. translator, Islamic Culture 1939
- Medieval Arab Cookery: Papers  RODINSON, M. & PERRY, Charles Prospect
Books, 2001, ISBN 0907325 912
- Cariadoc's Miscellany FRIEDMAN, David
That's all I can think of between 1100 and 1299, other people may have other
suggestions.
Al Servizio Vostro, e del Sogno
Lucrezia

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