[Sca-cooks] pilgrims and travel foods

[Stefan li Rous]

From: "Melanie Wilson" <MelanieWilson at dragonflight.co.uk>
 > I came across this book on Amazon. Has anyone got it ? If so I was 
wondering
 > is it a book documenting dishes used as travel food in period or a 
book
  recommending period food that will travelling to a modern medieval
 > event ?
As others have mentioned, this is more of an SCA book than one 
specifically on period travel foods. I guess I'm going to have to go 
re-look at my copy with what others have said in mind. But I thought it 
was a fairly good book for those in the SCA interested in some easy to 
fix medieval foods for SCA pot lucks and such, yet not into studying 
period foods.  And I seem to remember it does have a section on various 
"buy and use" foods which beat what many folks are otherwise going to 
bring to an event.

 > I'm looking for documentation on the food carried by pilgrims and
 > others who
 > were on the road, strictly in period not that one could physically 
take
 > this, rather I pcked by cobs and set off type of info ;)
I'm not sure how much supporting documentation is in here, but perhaps 
this file in the TRAVEL section of the Florilegium might be of use:
travel-foods-msg  (11K)  9/23/04    Period travel foods.

I seem to remember that "The Medieval Traveller" by Norbert Ohler talks 
some about food. I know it has a whole section on pilgrimages. ISBN 
0=85115-607-X. Unfortunately, it doesn't have an index, so I can't look 
up food or meals in there. I do recommend this book for anyone 
interested in medieval travel.

Stefan
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