[Sca-cooks] a worrisome quote from Le Menagier

[Nancy Kiel]

I've heard rabbits referred to as "Nature's Big Mac."



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.





>From: Daniel Myers <edouard at medievalcookery.com>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] a worrisome quote from Le Menagier
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:10:04 -0500
>
>
>On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 08:10  PM, Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus  
>Adamantius wrote:
>
>>Also sprach Daniel Myers:
>>>"Item, you can tell the age of a hare from the number of openings  under 
>>>its tail, for there will be as many openings as years."
>>>Le Menagier de Paris (Janet Hinson, trans.)
>
>[...]
>
>>Or, is this perhaps a little practical joke, a la Margaret Meade,  played 
>>on Le Menagier by a poulterer?
>
>Further support for this theory can be found in the following:  "Hares  
>rarely live more than a year in the wild."
>[  http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/lepus/ 
>l._capensis$narrative.html ]
>
>I found a table of life expectancies for various mammals which pretty  much 
>confirmed this - life expectancy at birth was 1.12 years for a  European 
>Hare.
>
>That Menagier ... what a kidder!
>
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