[Sca-cooks] mayan

[Marian Walke]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>>>Do any of y'all have any Mayan recipes? They do not have to be within
>>
>>SCA period, but that would be nice.
>>

Have you seen Sophie Coe's book?
--Old Marian

America's First Cuisines, byby Sophie D. Coe

Description [from Amazon.com]
After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of 
the first things Spaniards sought in the New World was 
undoubtedly fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine 
strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and 
animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine of 
many cultures. Drawing on original accounts by Europeans and 
native Americans, this pioneering work offers the first detailed 
description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the 
Inca. Sophie Coe begins with the basic foodstuffs, including 
maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts, squash, avocados, tomatoes, 
chocolate, and chiles, and explores their early history and 
domestication. She then describes how these foods were prepared, 
served, and preserved, giving many insights into the cultural and 
ritual practices that surrounded eating in these cultures. Coe 
also points out the similarities and differences among the three 
cuisines and compares them to Spanish cooking of the period, 
which, as she usefully reminds us, would seem as foreign to our 
tastes as the American foods seemed to theirs. Written in easily 
digested prose, America's First Cuisines will appeal to food 
enthusiasts as well as scholars.