[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 21, Issue 96

[Marcus Loidolt]

Anahita, 
An idea for researching Lenten foods for Christians in
the ME/Persia, Babylonia, Assyria, look into your
local Orthodox Church! The Syrian Orthodox as well as
the Chaldean Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Churches
have kept many of their cultural traditions alive and
are usually quite willing to share! You may find out
alot more than just foodstuffs!

Where are you located? There may be a community in
your area.

Johann
If not let me know, we have a large Syrian Orthodox
Church about a block away from us, St. George's has
always been willing to share many of its cultural
traditions.


> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:05:56 -0800
> From: lilinah at earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] a Lenten question-

> So, i've been thinking over my participation in the
> week of Medieval 
> Lenten Fasting. I've decided i should focus on
> Mediterranean recipes, 
> as i have a Mediterranean persona and am personally
> happier with 
> Mediterranean foods in general than those of more
> northerly climes.
> 
> While my Maghribi Muslim persona with a Zoroastrian
> Persian mother is 
> from the early 10th century, my research tends to
> jump through 
> several centuries, so i won't limit myself to a
> specific time period. 
> But i will try to make each meal based on one source
> or sources from 
> the same time period.
> 
> I think i'll also poke through the SCA-period Near
> and Middle Eastern 
> sources i have for suitable recipes from that
> corpus, although i know 
> i have no evidence for what Christians in those
> places ate during 
> Lent. I do know that in modern times, while there
> are special holiday 
> foods, most of the diet is rather similar among
> religious groups.
> 
> Anahita



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