[Sca-cooks] Bread consumption

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> I'm not saying bread wasn't eaten. I was just wondering if
> it were used as an appetizer. 

Just to make a distinction-- we consider the first things on the table
to be appetizers. From what I can tell, the first things that went on
the period table were the condiments/staples, such as salt. (In old
fashioned diners and homes, the bread and butter still go out on the
table first, but one is not expected to eat them as an appetizer, but
rather with dinner.) So, one would not be expected to eat your manchet
roll or whatever before the food, but with the food. 

Papa, I'm pretty sure that the evidence supports the idea that bread was 
served to be eaten with the meal, and that as such it was the first food 
that was put on the table, but I'm afraid I don't have time to tackle 
the research for it and write something up right now.

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