[Sca-cooks] Medieval Jewish Banquet

[Johnna Holloway]

I thought it was interesting in that what they were recreating: "The dinner added flavor -- literally -- to an academic conference on medieval Jewish life in Bevagna, a town where Jews lived from the early 14th century until they were expelled from all of Umbria in 1569. "There were probably never more than two or three Jewish families in Bevagna," …..No Jews today live in Bevagna, and only a few dozen Jews live in all of Umbria." But for tourism sake, "We are thinking now of adding Jewish components to our annual medieval festival," she told JTA between courses. "

Johnnae

On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:00 AM, Karen Lyons-McGann wrote:

> it was sounding pretty well done (despite a dull sounding blancmange), and
> hey, a book on Medieval Jewish food in Italy!  but then it fell apart there
> at the end.
> 
> Bonne
> 
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> They lost me here:   "And salt and pepper were expensive because they
>> served as 'refigerators' -- they preserved food, and they also hid any
>> spoilage." And the very boring recipe for biancomangiare aka blancmange.
>> 
>> Disappointed,
>> Selene
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/12/12 7:58 AM, Johnna  wrote:
>>> http://www.jta.org/news/**article/2012/10/17/3109541/**
>>> medieval-jewish-banquet-in-**small-italian-town-resurrects-**forgot-menus<http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/10/17/3109541/medieval-jewish-banquet-in-small-italian-town-resurrects-forgot-menus>