[Sca-cooks] Acre
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Tue Mar 9 21:35:24 PST 2010
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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