[Sca-cooks] Guinea Fowl

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach patrick.levesque at elf.mcgill.ca:
>While we're on the topic of misnamed and weird geographic distribution of food
>items...
>
>I'm wondering whether Guinea Fowl has been documented in period. According to
>the Larousse Gastronomique, the bird is from Africa and was known to the
>Romans. I've also seen the term in Weaver's 'Food and Drink in 
>Medieval Poland'
>but I mistrust this source. It may have been an error in 
>translation, and since
>I can't remember where in his text I saw this I can't verify his source (if
>any, and if available).

I don't have the info at my fingertips, but I vaguely recall reading 
that some of the earliest references to turkey in period Europe were, 
in fact, references to what we'd now call guinea fowl.

Adamantius
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