[Sca-cooks] Acre

[Terry Decker]

If the information isn't in Hakluyt, it probably doesn't exist.

May I suggest the Taxes of the Kingdom of Jerusalem as a source for 
ingredients available in the region.

Bear

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/taxesjlem.html

> So far the only "interesting"  reading has been The Principal Navigations,
> Voyages and Traffiques by Richard Hakluyt that was transcribed by Paul
> Hagen.  No lists of provisions, but has all of the contracts.
>
> What I would really like to do is from a single list of ingredients, put
> together a meal from two different cuisines.  For instance at Acre,
> ingredients that were there, and how the English or French court would
> prepare it, contrasting it with how the Islamic inhabitants would prepare
> it.
>
> Aldyth