[Sca-cooks] Hot off the presses: A new Feudal Gourmet pamphlet!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:04 AM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
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>> Forwarded by request
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>> Hot off the presses: A new Feudal Gourmet pamphlet!
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>> Researching a medieval Recipe: Condoignac - a Quince Paste from  
>> Paris, 1393-1394.
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> I'm curious about something here... is the reference to it being  
> from Paris based on the fact that there's a recipe for cotignac in  
> Le Menagier, or is there some more compelling reason? I ask because  
> today, the city of (I think) Tours claims it as their official  
> invention, and, French food marketing being what it is, rife with  
> statements of identity and "it can't be called this if it doesn't  
> come from here", I assume there's some foundation to that claim.
>
> Can one of our candy geeks shed a little light on this?
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> Adamantius

Sorry, my bad. Orleans, not Tours. They've allegedly been the  
industrial home of cotignac for centuries. There's no reason why it  
couldn't have been made earlier, elsewhere, but do we know that it was?

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