[Sca-cooks] Roman Mac and Cheese

[Volker Bach]

Well - Romans as in 'inhabitants of the city of Rome', yes. But you can probably see where that statement is ambiguous.

--- H Westerlund-Davis <yaini0625 at yahoo.com> schrieb am Mi, 20.1.2010:

> Von: H Westerlund-Davis <yaini0625 at yahoo.com>
> Betreff: [Sca-cooks] Roman Mac and Cheese
> An: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Datum: Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010, 7:43
> Adamantius,
> I am working a different computer and the thumb drive that
> held that fun tidbit was damaged. But, here is a brief
> artcle I found regarding the first hints towards Mac and
> Cheese. It wasn't the traditional Mac and Cheese that Kraft
> perfected in 1937, but one similar. 
> "Since the Kraft Company put it in a box in 1937 every
> American kid grew
> up with macaroni and cheese. There can
> be no doubt that its ultimate origins are Italian, as one
> finds macaroni and
> cheese recipes from the late thirteenth century in southern
> Italy. The anonymous Liber de coquina,
> written in Latin by someone familiar with the Neapolitan
> court then under the
> sphere of Charles II of Anjou (1248-1309) has a recipe
> called de lasaniswhich we can call the first “macaroni and
> cheese” recipe. It was a macaroni, in this case, lasagne
> sheets made from fermented dough and cut into two-inch
> squares that were cooked
> in water and tossed with grated cheese, probably Parmesan.
> The author suggests using powdered spices and
> layering the sheets of lasagne, just like today, with the
> cheese if desired."~http://www.cliffordawright.com/caw/food/entries/display.php/topic_id/16/id/105/
> Aelina
> 
> 
> Umm... where did the Romans get the Mac? This one is new to
> me...
> 
> Adamantius
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> "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's
> souls, when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and
> other people's bellies."
>             -- Rabbi Israel
> Salanter
> 
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