[Sca-cooks] Lamb (was Re: lent, wine, indulgences, de Nola)

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

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> Or merely that the Normans were doing the writing. History is written by
> the victors, after all. I would argue that, rather than the theory of word
> usage showing that the Normans were doing the eating, the word usage shows
> that the Normans were writing the cookbooks. The first cookery manuscripts
> are, after all, written in Norman French or are posited translations from
> a French manuscript.

What we discussed in 8th grade English is that Anglo Saxon words for
animals survived, while Norman words were applied to the meat of the
animals. We all figured that the people doing the raising of the animals
kept the old words, and the new Norman upperclass applied the Norman words
to the meat as it came to table.

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