[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... (a few excerpts fromApicius)

[Terry Decker]

The specific regulation is that a person who wishes to sell spoiled meat 
must take a place before the town pillory and sell the meat for what it is, 
spoiled meat.  There is no specification as to how the meat is to be used by 
the purchaser.  The location before the pillory is an interesting point, 
since it suggests that the meat may have been used for purposes other than 
eating.

The regulation also specifies that tainted meat was not to be sold in any 
other place and that such meat put out for sale would be confiscated.  A 
second offense would land the perpetrator in the pillory.  Poetic justice 
from a lawful seller of tainted meat against an unlawful seller of the same 
product perhaps?

Bear


> In keeping with the idea of offering the researcher points from which to 
> begin her research, I
> submit the following link, which seems to detail the laws and customs of 
> medieval Ipswich, in
> particular where they pertain to the open vending of foods, and in 
> particular the vending of
> spoiled meats...
>
> http://the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/towns/ipswich6.html
>
> Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites 
> me.