[Sca-cooks] A new book

[Ana Valdés]

In  Poland they did and in France you have still butchersshops called "Chevalines"
where you can buy horsesausages and steaks. In a book called "Unmentionable Cuisine,",
written  by Calvin W. Scwade, you can find the sources and the lore about
horseflesheating. The Tartars did it since their horses were their closest companion
and they felt a kind of comunion when eating their flesh.
Rather fascinating book...
Ana


Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Ana commented:
> > By the way and relating again to the discussion about cannibalism, I came across
> > yesterday a very interesting book, "In the Devil's Garden, a sinful history of
> > forbidden food", written by Stewart Lee Allen. Very interesting book with a lot
> > of historical material about haggish, horse meat, ritual cannibalism and other
> > cultural stuff. Anyone who knows the book?
>
> Do you mean haggis? The stuffed sheep's stomach/sausage?
> Here are a few files on subjects related to those you mentioned above:
>
> haggis-msg        (94K) 10/25/01    Scottish haggis recipes. comments on haggis.
> horse-recipes-msg (24K) 12/14/01    Period horse recipes. References.
>
> Although not all haggis contains meat, these are both in the FOOD-MEATS
> section.
>
> So far, all of the period horse meat recipes I've seen are from western
> Asia. It doesn't look like the Europeans ate horseflexh, at least
> intentionally.
> --
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