[Sca-cooks] Origin of the "spice to hide taste of rotten meat" myth?

[david friedman]

In the course of a Usenet discussion, someone raised the question of 
when and where the belief that medievals used lots of spices to hide 
the taste of rotten meat originated. The best I could do was point at 
the reference to the strong stomachs of our ancestors in the 
introduction to _Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books_, done about 
1890--but that says nothing about rotten meat. I said I would put the 
question to this list.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/