[Sca-cooks] Ok Now I KNOW THIS but for the life can'tremember...
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Wed Dec 13 19:46:03 PST 2006
They were eaten. There are references to them being raised to be eaten,
Rumpolt has recipes, and Vincenzo Campi's "Poultry Seller" (very late 16th
Century) has a dead turkey being plucked by the poultry seller.
Bear
>
> Turkeys are found in several embroidery picture books/bestiaries from the
> late 16th, early 17th century. Were they just pets or were they eaten?
> Either way, they were known because people like Peter Stent and Konrad
> Gesler were drawing them.....
>
> Dame Arwen Lioncourt
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