[Sca-cooks] Basque Food

[Johnna Holloway]

Kurlansky is also the author of
The Basque History of the World : The Story of a Nation
You might also check that out.

Johnnae

Robin wrote:

> 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.
>