[Sca-cooks] Basque Food

[Robin]

otsisto wrote:

>I do not believe that Basque and Catalan are the same thing.
>Lyse
>
They are not the same thing.  I have not come across any period recipes 
-- though that may be a language issue.  Basque is not an Indo-European 
language, and is completely unlike, French, Spanish, and Catalan.

Alan Davidson, in "The Penguin Companion to Food", mentions seafood and 
mushrooms as being two significant items in Basque cuisine.  Mark 
Kurlansky, in "Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world", 
says that in the Middle Ages, Basque fishermen were catching, salting, 
and selling large quantities of cod and whale.

-- 
Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net