[Sca-cooks] Re: Cruel food

[Christiane]

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:34:06 +0100
From: Ana Vald?s <agora at algonet.se>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] was mad cow... now brains
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
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Please, do anyone have recipes or stories about that kind of food? I am 
now completing my longterm project about the cookbook I am writing, 
about "cruel food". And I need recipes and tales about lambtesticles and
brains and all people in different cultural times has eaten.
My idea with the book is punctualize its not any "forbidden or 
disgusting food", everything is eadible if you need or fancy doing that.
Have now  an enormous bibliography about these kind of alimentary taboos.
Ana
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Initially upon joining the SCA, I did some research into Florentine cibreo, a dish that features chicken livers, chicken hearts, chicken kidneys, chicken wattles and combs, and the kicker, an ingredient I turned to the cook's list to answer just to make sure my understanding of Italian held up ... "beans of chicken" is what the phrase literally translates to, but they don't mean legumes. Yes, the magic ingredient is rooster testicles. 

Have managed to locate places to get most of the ingredients (except the wattles and combs), but haven't dared to make it yet. Who besides me would actually eat it?

Gianotta