[Sca-cooks] Magninus Mediolanensis on sauces: Regimen / Latin, Irish
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at jeffnet.org
Sun Nov 28 17:53:37 PST 2010
On 11/28/2010 1:39 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:
>
> You're right...probably my old age fuzzing up my memory. But somehow I do
> remember references in things I read about Charlemagne talking about the
> materials that the Irish monks had preserved.
>
> Kiri
Well, the Irish were Christianized quite early and pretty much stayed
that way, while the Iberian peninsula fell to the Moors and remained in
their control through a significant portion of the Middle Ages, so there
was no continual Christian tradition- and to add to that, the Visigoths
(who swept into Spain during the Migration Period) were Arian
Christians, and to Rome (and most of western Europe at the time) that
was only slightly better than the Moors. So a Christian intellectual
tradition it was not. Simply a human intellectual tradition.
To go back to food though- I've been cobbling together sources from the
Carolingian capitularies and Anthimus and squooshing them together to
come up with some plausibly Frankish recipes, and so far have been
pleased with the results. At the least, they're edible. :-) But in my
readings I found something rather amusing about the great Charles-
apparently he had a favorite tablecloth that after dinner, he would
gather up and throw into the fire. And pull it out again, as a party
trick of sorts. It seems it was asbestos. one would hope that he didn't
accidentally grab the wrong cloth on occasion...
Liutgard
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