[Sca-cooks] Medieval Jewish Banquet

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 12 12:56:27 PST 2012


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 Holloway wrote:
> Came across this article while doing some browsing this am and thought people might like seeing it.
> Medieval Jewish banquet in small Italian town resurrects forgotten menus By Ruth Ellen Gruber · October 17, 2012
>
> http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/10/17/3109541/medieval-jewish-banquet-in-small-italian-town-resurrects-forgot-menus
>
> Johnnae




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