[Sca-cooks] Dinner Impossible
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Jan 31 05:00:00 PST 2008
On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Elise Fleming wrote:
> One item which was... unfortunate? disconcerting? illogical? Ren
> Faire?...
> was when the woman assistant explained that the salad ingredients
> were left
> in large pieces because people ate the salad with their hands...
> which was
> then followed shortly by a shot of the table being set with forks!
> Forks??
It does sort of make you wonder how 14th-century English sallats might
have been eaten. Everything shredded or chopped finely (Forme of Cury
says to pluck it small with your hands) and eaten with a spoon? Or did
you just pick it up by the pinch?
Adamantius
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