[Sca-cooks] French table Service and Web site - xlation part one

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This is great.  I know that there are other descriptions, but this one is one that I had found paraphrased and a small quote in the Scully work...and had used what I found in an article I wrote on 14th c. kitchens, etc.  This person was highly placed in the household of the Duke of Normandy, I think...and his diary entry on this matter is very useful.  It really will be far better to reference the diary directly (closer to a primary source, even if it is a translation) than to use the reference from another book.

I look forward to reading the remainder of it!

Kiri (I know...what's a Japanese doing writing about European kitchens....)
> Well, i jsut could not resist!  I had to start the translation.  Here is a
> quick xlation of the first paragraph under the heading Le Service du vin
> selon Olivier de la Marche
> 
> The Wine Service according to.....
> 
> In the framework of the grand courts of time - and specifically to the Court
> of Bourgogne - there developed a literature whose goal to meticulously
> regulate the organization of feasts, the succession of courses, and the
> services (probably here it means the dishes, the cutlery, the glassware,
> etc).  The most famous treatise was written Olivier de la Marche:  it is the
> state of the House of the duke Charles de Bourgogne said the Daring and also
> The Foolhardy.
> As Maitre D, de la Marche is not only responsible for advising the kitchens
> of the dishes his master desires to have at his table, but also to organise
> the meals to his satisfaction.
> The wine service is ensured by the Echanson (could not find a xlation for
> this word; probably the person responsible for the wine cellars or something
> like that) who mainly sees to the mixing of wine to water according to the
> preference (or taste) of the prince.
> The seating is choreographed by the Maitre D like a ballet, where each
> [guest], according to his rank, his place and his function is placed.
> 
> Ok, that's it for the first para.  More tomorrow
> vicki
> 
> Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
> Barony Beyond the Mountain
> East Kingdom
> vhsjvs at gis.net
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mairi Ceilidh" <jjterlouw at earthlink.net>
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] French table Service and Web site
> 
> 
> > No need to scan.  The pages are at:
> >
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/index.htm
> >
> > The first column on this page is translated into English at a link
> accessed
> > from the home page.  The second and third columns are apparently not
> > translated.  The third column has a section that is an oral commentary on
> > the banquet depicted in the painting.  (Hopefully this will make sense
> when
> > you see the site.)  Just click on the desired heading in each column.  I
> > know that I would love to know what the rest of the commentary says, but,
> > you know, it's all French to me.
> >
> > Mairi Ceilidh
> >
> >
> >
> > > if you can scan those passages and send them to me, I will be happy to
> > xlate
> > > them for you as French is my first language, well, both English and
> > French,
> > > really, since Ilearned them simultaneously.  I am at anyone's service
> for
> > > xlations anytime.
> > >
> > > Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
> > > Barony Beyond the Mountain
> > > East Kingdom
> > > vhsjvs at gis.net
> > >
> >
> >
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