[Sca-cooks] Wines at a Feast

[Micheal]

  You mean sort of like serving white with fish, reds with beef, fruit wines 
with deserts, and such. Not actually but there are references to which wines 
are best for human consumption all the way back to Apicius at least.
 Cealian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Benson" <voxeight at gmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Wines at a Feast


> Greetings,
>
> This is an interesting concept, but I am curious about something. Has
> anyone come across any references that imply or state that such a
> thing as pairing wines with specific foods was a practice known in
> period?
>
> Evaluating the food and then selecting a wine to complement and
> balancet the "experience" seems to be a thoroughly modern concept to
> me. But it would be fascinating should someone be able to document
> otherwise.
>
> I have at times thought about letting people know what beverages would
> have been consumed with the meal, be it wine, beer or mead. Or
> possibly supplying a carafe of water that has hypocras spices infused
> into it for people to water their own wine. But I haven't figured a
> good way to accomplish this.
>
> Glad Tidings,
> Serena da Riva
>
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