[Sca-cooks] Food Myths

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

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Generys
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Food Myths


> 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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