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

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 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.


Regardless of the end use, we can begin to see how the layperson may view this 'regulation' as an
authorization to sell spoiled meat to the consumer...and make the next logical assumption that
folks ate spoiled meat.  And therein lies the seed for the belief that medieval folks ate spoiled
meat.

Now, if only I could find the references to adding additional spices to cover the off flavors and
smells, we'd really have something...

William de Grandfort





Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.


		
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