[Sca-cooks] Mini Pages Article

[Huette von Ahrens]

The only thing that I don't like about it is that it perpetuates that myth that the Medieval and Renaissance person only ate with his or her fingers.

Wrong!  They did use utensils.  Not always forks but they did use spoons and knives.  The Middle East started using forks in the 7th Century AD, and the Italians started using them in the 11th century, although not everywhere.  France saw their first fork in 1533.  

At least they didn't say that they ate highly spiced rotten meat.

Huette


--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Mini Pages Article
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 3:52 PM
> Hope everyone had a great July 4th.
> 
> In case anyone is interested, the Mini Page which comes
> with the Sunday papers and comic sections in the USA will be
> featuring the SCA and Middle Ages in their section dated
> July 4, 2009.
> 
> They published it Friday because of the holiday in some
> papers and that is when I snagged a copy.
> 
> It's online here: http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/minipage.pdf
> 
> It does mention cookery and subtleties too.
> 
> Johnna
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