[Sca-cooks] Acre

[Deborah Hammons]

Yay!!  Happy dance today.  Zohary has a good list of indigenous plants and
nuts.  I think I am going to need new glasses after this A&S.  :-=))  Thank
you.

Aldyth

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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