[Sca-cooks] roast turkey

[Stefan li Rous]

  William de Grandfort replied to me with:
> --- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >   William de Grandfort declared:
> >> When I am King, I shall make Roast Turkey the national dish of Caid,
> >> and banish any who dare oppose me!!
> > You could. But why? That is a period food. Late, and certainly not
> > available in all areas but it is "period" by our usual rules.
>
> True enough, I suppose.  However, not for my Norman persona, I'm afraid
> :)
Nope. But period, as I said, by our usual rules. I know you were 
probably just joking, but I have a problem with royalty legislating 
that something is period when it isn't. Legislating that they don't 
personally have a problem with a particular non-period item is 
different. Although as the folks that should be setting an example and 
trying to uphold the ideals of the Society, including authenticity, I 
don't think they should do this.

If you do some research and find out a good idea of what the Normans 
did and didn't eat, I'd love to have it for this Florilegium file:
fd-Normans-msg    (17K)  4/ 9/01    Food of the Normans. References.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION/fd-Normans-msg.html

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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