[Sca-cooks] Handling special diet needs at feasts

[Mark.S Harris]

Lady Katherine Rowberd commented:
> Johnnae wrote:
> > I read over the article and noticed that you didn't cite
> > any works on the history of vegetarianism. You might
> > want to add something like Colin Spencer's The Heretic's
> > Feast. A History of Vegetarianism. Hanover, NH and London:
> > University Press of New England, 1995. [pbk: 1996].
> > There are others, but this is fairly recent and readable.
>
> Thanks for the reference, and I'll see if I can read the book and
> perhaps list it in my article.  As I said in the intro, I'm not really
> an expert on the subject, so I haven't read any books on it.  What I
> know, I've figured out by cooking for vegetarian friends :)

I think you will find more comments on period vegetarian practices
and some more referances in this file in the FOOD section of the
Florilegium:
vegetarian-msg    (75K)  5/12/00    Medieval vegetarianism. Lenten
foods.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/vegetarian-msg.html

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net