[Sca-cooks] 14th Century Food Imports

[Terry Decker]

In the early 14th Century, the following items were being bought and sold in 
the markets of Constantinople.  The containers were usually considered tare 
to be subtracted from the gross weight of the sale.  Bear



By the cantar (150 Genoese pounds)

suet in jars

broken almonds in bags

honey in kegs or skins

rice by the bag

Dried figs of Majorca and Spain in hampers

Cummin in bag

Pistachios in bag

Saltmeat

cheese

chestnuts



By the hunderdweight (100 Genoese pounds)

round pepper

ginger

sugar

powdered sugar

cinnamon

mastic



By the pound

saffron

clove stalks and cloves

cubebs

rhubarb

mace

long pepper

galangal

nutmegs

spike (spikenard?)

cardamoms



By other measures

dates

filberts

walnuts

salted sturgeon tails

salt

oil of Venice

oil of the March

oil of Apulia

oil of Gaeta, etc

wheat

barley

wine of Greece

wine of Turpia in Calabria

wine of Patti in Sicily

wine of Patti in Apulia

wine of Cutrone in Calabria

wine of the March

wine of Crete

wine of Romania

country wine