[Sca-cooks] re: salt and pepper

[Mercy Neumark]

>Given the habit of not passing the food, and the heft of the nef, I'd
> >think that either salting at table didn't happen, or people brought
> >their own small salt dishes, just as until a certain era, they brought
> >their own eating utensils.  Whether they provided their own salt to >fill
>the dish, or somehow had their little dish filled from the larger >nef, I
>dunno.  But it doesn't seem reasonable that the nef and only >the nef was
>used to serve salt to a roomful of people.

After I taught a class at a local collegium in ceramics, one of the students
handed me a wooden "salt celler".  I assumed that each person would have a
little celler (sort of like the little chinese bowls that have hot mustard
in them) to themselves and they would probably fill it from said heavy
middle salt display.  Not sure if this is right or not.

Could be a bad assumption on my part.

--Arte

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