[Sca-cooks] CRUSADER FOOD

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 03:20 PM 12/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
>'The master of the castle, Count Gaston Phoebus de Foix, was known as a
>"prudent knight and much beloved by all who surrounded him." According to
>one of his servants, the count "adored dogs, hunting his wife and eating and
>dined four times daily'
>
>Hunting his wife???
>
>Eep!
>
>Wow...those crusaders were....interesting gents...

Especially interesting, since I don't know of Gaston being a Crusader- he's
not event the right time period, being late 14th/early 15th century. His
_Livre du Chasse_ came out in the 1390's IIRC (Why do I know? My period.
Great clothes.)

'Lainie
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