[Sca-cooks] food myths (Turkey)

[Daniel Myers]

D'oh!  Single digit transposition, the bane of lousy typists - will
fix, and set to the earlier date of 1615.  This is the trouble with not
seeing the original source with one's own eyes.

If you could send me a full citation for Harrison's mention of turkey
then I'll add that one as well.


On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 02:59 PM, johnna holloway wrote:

> 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.


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