[Sca-cooks] Newspaper reporter needs help with story

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

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From: Patrick ODonnell <patrickscribe at yahoo.com>

> 1) What would you consider the main mundane misconceptions about medieval food?

1. They ate rotten meat.
2. They ate overspiced brown glop
3. They ate tasteless brown glop.
4. They ate "weird stuff".

> 2) What is the most common -but wrong - way medieval feasts are depicted?

Sloppy and mannerless -- men gnawing at huge hunks o' meat, and tossing the bones to the dogs.

> 3) What is the true most important difference between modern food and medieval food?

Their food was seasonal.  Although they had food preservation techniques such as smoking, salting, and pickling, their diet was very dependent on the calendar.  Richard II did not have salad greens with his Christmas dinner.



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