[Sca-cooks] Foods in Fantasy (was Cook's Prayer)

[SilverR0se at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/13/2006 7:59:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
selene at earthlink.net writes:


> I've nitpicked with Katherine Kurtz, aka Countess Bevin Frasier of 
> Sterling, about how some of the dishes she cited for stories set in the 
> 1200's were not right;  she replied that it was an alternate universe 
> and some foods, like some weapons, were invented earlier.  OK, good answer.
> 

I was asked (actually hired and paid - glee, glee) to do, amoung other 
things, the food section of the Deryni roll-playing game book. I pretty well stuck 
to what was authentic to the period I had been told about, 13th/14th century 
IIRC.

Anne McCaffrey, in additon to her cookbooks, also has many food references in 
her work, and even more references to drink. She is one author that doesn't 
forget that her characters have got to eat.

Bertrice Small, who has recently branched off from Romance into Fantasy, also 
has lots of food references. Frankly, this is a relief to me, as her  
Historical Romance food refernces are, shall we say, not always authentic. But she 
never claimed they were, so it's really just me.

Renata