[Sca-cooks] Meat!

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Not uninteresting, but rather simplistic given  the sweep of the subject. 
The idea that beef and lamb replaced pork as the  favored meat is not a new 
one, though the shift begins to appear before the  Plague in fact. The 
article also seems to focus very much on the late Middle  Ages. Finally, it's hard 
to tell from the summary, but I get the  impression it's based on textual 
evidence, which is only part of the  picture.

For anyone who wants a broad archeological view going across  more of the 
period, this is a particularly good article:

Compter et  mesurer les os animaux. Pour une histoire de l’élevage et de l’
alimentation en  Europe de l’Antiquité aux Temps Modernes 
Frédérique  Audoin-Rouzeau    Histoire & Mesure      Year   1995    Volume  
 10     Issue   3-4    pp.  277-312
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/hism_0982-1783_1995_n
um_10_3_1558

Jim  Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

Les Leftovers: sort of a food history  blog
leslefts.blogspot.com

In a message dated 11/4/2013 7:52:01 P.M.  Pacific Standard Time, 
lcm at jeffnet.org  writes:
http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/11/how-much-meat-did-medieval-people-eat