[Sca-cooks] paella

[Micheal]

 Actually that's what I am going after is it or isn`t it period. I have 
found several shadowy references in historical accounts in the Iberian 
peninsula about soldiers, and local populations using shields to cook a meal 
upon. The only common thread is grain or legumes. Meats, fowl, sea food , 
ranged depending on where your making the dish. Real thin thread some what 
stretched to the breaking point thread. But what is the point of going after 
the easy. After all is it not what we are about in the end of things. 
Finding out the little bits of reality within the time frame.
 I tend to believe noodles would have been a more modern adaptation. Less 
likely to be period then say rice or peas, beans.  Not sure how fast noodles 
would have spread form Italy into the Iberian peninsula.
 I have used your Archive so much I think I have set an apartment on the 
lower levels. Some day I am hoping to contribute to its mass, who knows 
maybe even Paella. Unless of course someone else beats me to it. All is fair 
in research after all.
 Yours in service
 Cealian Of Moray
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:13 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] paella


>
> I'm not sure that I've seen any definative info tracing the dish we  think 
> of as "paella" to our time period. I remember asking about  paella myself 
> in the past. While I don't have a file specifically  dedicated to paella, 
> if you go to the Florilegium and use the search  engine on the top page 
> there, you will find a handful of references.
>
> Stefan
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