[Sca-cooks] Food, the rich and the poor in Tour at the end of the XVth ce...

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Having downloaded this publication, I see that most of the issue in fact is 
 on food, with a wealth of details from various regions. (Very little of it 
is  particularly exotic by modern standards; lots of beef, lamb, etc. and a 
variety  of fish; though peacock, heron, etc do fitfully appear). It also 
contains  (towards the end) the texts of the Tractatus de Modo and the Liber 
de  Coquina.
 
Jim  Chevallier
 (http://www.chezjim.com/) www.chezjim.com

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

 
In a message dated 11/18/2013 10:24:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com writes:


"The  great drama of our epoch is the growing gulf which divides well fed   
people, weighed down by their excess, from those for whom daily food is  an 
 
obsessive preoccupation, sometimes even a true cause for anguish.  Two 
thirds 
of  men suffer from hunger or, at least, gravely bear the  ill-effects of 
an  
unbalanced diet."

Bernard Chevalier,  "Alimentation et Niveau de Vie a Tour a la fin du XVe  
Siecle",  1968

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e.langEN)  

This is in fact the introduction to an article on how different people  ate 
 
in late Medieval Tours. The same publication includes several  other 
articles on  Medieval food, for those who read French and care  to prowl.


Jim  Chevallier
(http://www.chezjim.com/)  www.chezjim.com

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