[Sca-cooks] A Feast in the Time of Chaucer

[Elaine Koogler]

Not sure about this period but I do know that during the Renaissance in
Italy, kitchens were frequently on the same floor as the dining room,
usually at the top of the house.  That way smoke from the fires, etc could
be more easily vented...and food could be served easily while it was still
hot.  http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1487_renaissance/cucina.htmlis
a web page from an exhibition about homes in Italy during the
Renaissance
and you can see both a cross section of a house showing the kitchen on the
top floor and a painting by Vincenzo Campi where you can see the dining room
through a portal on the other side of the kitchen.

Kiri

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> <snippage>
> I have no idea where the kitchens would have been.
> Cook mentions that the guests might have been seated in a loggia. see pages
> 63-64.
> (Transactions - The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 21
> contains
> the Cook paper "The last months of Chaucer's earliest patron."
>
>
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