[Sca-cooks] Medieval questioniare - tablecothes, buffets and tisane
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Sun Oct 28 13:59:14 PDT 2007
Suey wrote:
> 1. The tablecloth first introduced in Europe was by Ziryab, the Kurd,
> founder of the first conservatory of music which was in Cordoba. His
> tablecloth was leather. The surnape did not exist then on the 9th C.
> Muslim Hispanos were instructed to clean their knives and hands on the
> flatbread provided. Spaniards did not have trenchers.
I don't think that's entirely correct. Ziryab (Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn
Nafi) may have introduced (or re-introduced) the tablecloth to
9th-century al-Andalus, but a very quick look through my own books
yields earlier examples of tablecloths in Europe. For example Roy
Strong's _Feast_ has a sixth-century Roman mosaic of the Last Supper
served on a tablecloth.
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Adele de Maisieres
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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