New World Foods- was Re: [Sca-cooks] Earthapples eyc

[Huette von Ahrens]

In the past, when I did my Viking banquet, I
used the term "conjecturally period", since
there are no Viking recipes available and
I had to base everything from my research.
What I did was use Renaissance recipes that
seemed to fit what I found in the sagas,
eddas and archeological texts.  Whether
500 years off was better that being 1000
years off is anybody's guess, but I felt
that the Renaissance cooking techniques probably
would be closer to Viking than 20th Century
cooking techniques.

I think that "food fashioned in a period style"
is a very elegant turn of phrase. 

Huette

--- Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Bill Fisher <liamfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I would not call it period food.  Period food
> is food we have definite
> > documentation
> > for that we know they made.  This would be
> "food fashioned in a period style."
> > 
> > The line is small, but the difference is not.
> 
> 
> "Food fashioned in a period style".... that
> sounds acceptable.  Certainly more accomodating
> than
> 'non-period', or 'perioid' or the dreaded 'how
> dare you mess with medieval food'.
> 
> I like that one.
> 
> William de Grandfort
> Norman Invader fashioned in period style
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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