[Sca-cooks] Burt Wolf venting

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach jenne at fiedlerfamily.net:
>  > >"The first cattle ranch was in Florida," Wolf says. "No one in Europe knew
>>  =
>>  >how to raise cattle (except) a small group of people in Spain. And by
>>  1530,=
>>  >they had big cattle ranches in central Florida."
>
>Hm... I wonder if he got ahold of the rumor that nobody ate beef if they
>could help it in the middle ages because there were no beef cattle, only
>used-up dairy cows and oxen....

I wonder if it's possible he's referring to gelded steers. After a
not-very-deep study of this, I STR seeing references to beef coming
from bulls and bullocks, and occasionally from cows, heifers, and
oxen, but I don't believe I've run across any references to steers in
period, or even until the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Unless
anybody else has some specifics on this...

Adamantius
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