[Sca-cooks] Turkeys and peacocks and knives, oh my!

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

There's a very interesting illustration in one of the 16th century
Italian carving manuals hosted on the Fons Grewe website:
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/showbook.pl?gw009
Type 18 in the search window, and click "anar a" (go to).
It's a comparative illustration of a gallo d'India (turkey) and pavone
(peacock).

If you then click "endavant" (forward), it will take you to a picture of
kitchen implements, including a tongs-like device to hold an egg for
carving.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net