[Sca-cooks] Links: Medieval Cooking, Combat, Celtic Art, Illumination, Chants

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>Crusader period food http://jeru.huji.ac.il/crusaders_food.htm some good
>information about the Crusades and other related periods of food history
>(Byzantine, early Islamic, Mameluke).

This site is pretty bogus. Some of the pages describing foods don't
look too egregious, but the recipes... Oy, vey ist mir!

Some of them look tasty, but they are FAAAAAR from historically accurate.

Like, there's this white kidney bean salad given as typically
Byzantine... Yeah, right.

And as a typically Crusader dish, there's "halvah parfait," made by
mixing modern (sesame and egg white) halvah with whipped cream and
freezing, then serving with a sauce of passion fruit... as if *that*
is typically Medieval Levantine fruit... Sure...

And for the Mamluk period, rose petal jam made with citric acid...
and the irony is, there is actually a surviving cookbook from the
Mamluk period...

SIGH

The clothing is pretty wackazoid, too... They're using simple gifs -
ok - but then they colored them aqua and lavender. Yoiks!

They make it look like the Mamluk horseback rider is riding with no
pants or boots - when he'd actually would wear pants and boots.

And the king they show as Ottoman is really Sassanian, from, say, oh,
about **1,000** years earlier.

The little historical site-seeing stuff is ok. I couldn't believe
that they had listed Muhammad AFTER Umar on the Early Muslim People
page, though. Umar was one of the Rightly Guided Caliphs AFTER
Muhammad died.

SIGH

Anahita