[Sca-cooks] Natural Magick as a Culinary source?
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Thu Oct 20 23:49:22 PDT 2005
Captain Elias said:
> Sorry I did not read that correctly....
Yes, I missed the mais comment also.
> I often get a related question from students when I mention "Roman
> corn ships",
Argh. My first thought was "What kind of dip would go good with
'Roman corn' chips" :-)
> such as the great ships recovered at the bottom of
> Lake Nemi. So I geeked on that and missed your emphasis...
>
> It looks like it.
> The Spanish brought Indian corn to Europe quite early in the
> conquest, but it remained rather a curiosity, as I understand it.
> Natural Magic was first published in 1550-1560 or so, which is
> late enough that he could have had soem experience with maize.
> Certainly the Spanish and the Italians of Naples were in great
> communication at the time, as Naples was under spanish rule at
> that time for close to 100 years.
> So it is possible that he got a chance to see some maize.
Thanks for the Spanish connection to the Italians. We've talked
previously about maize replacing wheat in northern Italy during late
period, but I don't remember any mention of the Spanish actually
using maize.
A few Florilegium files on this subject in the FOOD-BREADS-GRAINS
section:
maize-msg (38K) 9/ 9/04 Discovery of maize (Indian corn)
in the
Americas and its introduction
to Europe.
polenta-msg (22K) 10/ 1/01 Period polenta. Wheat and maize
polenta.
Stefan
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Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
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