[Sca-cooks] Tomatoes( was Philip)
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 12 19:53:55 PST 2006
According to the Oxford Companion to Food, there is a similar
dish to Paella in the Libro de Sent Sovi. But with no tomatoes.
Huette
--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Actually, I see many questions to be answered.
>
> Are there any dishes preceding the Medieval period that resemble paella?
> What are they? Where do they originate? Are the possible harbingers of
> paella? I kinda think paella derives from some similar Roman recipes, but I
> haven't seriously pursued it.
>
> What similar dishes appear in the Medieval and Spanish corpus? How do they
> compare with some of the modern recipes for paella?
>
> When did the name of the dish and the name of the pan it's cooked in become
> synonymous?
>
> When do tomatoes first make their appearance in paella? How does the
> original paella with tomatoes compare to the modern recipe?
>
> Lots of fun research there.
>
> Bear
>
>
> > So what's the goal of your research project here? Are we trying to prove
> > paella is a period dish because there's a period vessel with a similar
> > name, or are we trying to prove that period paella is similar to modern
> > paella (which may or may not prove to be the case)?
> >
> > Adamantius
>
>
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