[Sca-cooks] Ok Now I KNOW THIS but for the life can'tremember...

[Terry Decker]

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