[Sca-cooks] French table Service and Web site

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

I read French very poorly...it's been a VERY long time since I studied it (back in college in the very early 60's).  But from what I could determine, it looks like there is some good information there.  I especially would love to have a translation of the initial passage you refer to...I believe that Scully referenced it in his discussion of how kitchens are run in his "Early French Cookery".

Kiri
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a new (to me) book on Medival Calanders and I was reading through it
> last night. In one chapter it talks about the month of January and the New
> Years feast illumination in Tres Riches Heures. In discussing what the
> responsibilities of the individuals in the image are doing they provide a
> supporting quote on the wine ceremony from "Estat de la maison du duc
> Charles de Bourgogne". I had never ssen this (but I am new at this) so I
> decided to see what I could find. And it was very little.
> 
> Does anyone know if this text is available? And if it is translated into
> English? I managed to find a French site, but it pretty much has the same
> passage as is in my book.
> Original page:
> http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/recettes/vin.htm
> After Google Translation:
> http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient-menuext&hl=en&u=http%3A
> %2F%2Fexpositions%2Ebnf%2Efr%2Fgastro%2Frecettes%2Fvin%2Ehtm
> And the translation in my book is vastly superior to the Google Translation.
> 
> Wondering about the site that it came from I deleted the url back to the
> source and found a really interesting website. Possibly others have already
> found it, but I thought I would share anyway. If nothing else is has a vast
> array fo images regarding Gardening, Food, Feasting and Cooking.
> Original:
> http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/index.htm
> 
> Unfortunately I do not read French so I had to do with the partial
> translation provided by Google:
> http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/index
> .htm
> 
> If any of you French speaking type people out there haven't seen it, let me
> know if it is as interesting as it appears to be.
> 
> Glad Tidings,
> Serena da Riva
> 
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