[Sca-cooks] food myths (Turkey)

[johnna holloway]

Markham may be dated 1638 here not 1683. Since this is The English
Housewife we are discussing, that book dates from its first appearance
in 1615 as part of Countrey Contentments.

William Harrison includes material on the turkey in his
A Description of Elizabethan England                        Written for
Holinshed’s Chronicles in the 1570's.


Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Daniel Myers wrote:

> Thanks for that reference!  I had the turkey in the period foods
> database from the "The English Housewife" [G. Markham, 1683] but had
> missed this one.