[Sca-cooks] Food Myths

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Generys ferch Ednuyed:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm doing a class next week for a canton meeting on various food related
>things (it's an overview of a lot of things rather than going really indepth
>on anything, just to keep non-foodies interested... :-) )  and one of the
>subjects I wanted to spend 5 minutes on was various commonly-held (by
>SCAdians and non) beliefs about medieval food that just aren't true, or are
>distortions of fact, etc... (i.e. I'm going to talk about the
>spices-to-cover-rotten-meat thing, of course, but when I do so I'm also
>going to mention that one recipe that I believe we talked about on this list
>(have to find it again) for burying rotten meat to make it good again...)  I
>was wondering if you all had any favorite myths to contribute - esp. if they
>have interesting bits to them like the burying rotten meat thing.

Top Ten Medieval Food-related Myths:

10. Medieval people lived on salt meat and fish throughout the winter
9. Medieval people invariably had bad teeth
8. Medieval people never used forks
7. Medieval people ate honey butter at every meal
6. Medieval feasts routinely had twelve or more courses
5. Medieval people had disgusting table manners
4. Medieval nobility _always_ ate roast beef
3. Medieval peasants _never_ ate meat
2. Medieval people never ate vegetables

and the number one Medieval Food-related Myth... (dingdingding)

1. Medieval food is heavily spiced to conceal the flavors of rotten meat

Adamantius


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