[Sca-cooks] Runners/longieres instead of napkins?

[Ana Valdés]

As I wrote I saw them in Damascus and they were sold in the same place tablecloths and napkins were sold.
I assume as Jim they were taken by the Crusades back to Europe.
Ana

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30 jun 2013 kl. 23:46 skrev JIMCHEVAL at aol.com:

> Lovely image. I would think something that diaphanous would be silk,  no?
> 
> All this makes me wonder if this was yet another Eastern import that  came 
> to France after the Crusades. 
> 
> Jim  Chevallier
> 
> Comparing early and late medieval food in France
> _http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html   
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/30/2013 3:12:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~al-tabbakhah/longiera_in_use.jpg
> 
> _ (http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html) 
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