[Sca-cooks] Note to "spices hide the taste of bad food"

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

This article says that the Greek church accused the Latins of eating a  
number of foods, including porcupine, and that recipes were known for it (none  
cited though):

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rbph_0035-0818_2003_n
um_81_4_4773 (1032)
 
 
Other fun porcupine facts:
 
In grottos in Kabul, porcupine bones were still found from modern remains  
(along with jackal and bat) 
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jafr_0037-9166_1931_n
um_1_1_1507 (125)
 
 
In Gabon, apparently porcupines sometimes eat the pit of a local fruit  
which makes their meat bitter:
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jatba_0370-3681_1930_
num_10_104_4846?_Prescripts_Search_tabs1=standard&
 
 
In the Congo, the Beena Luluwa believe that if a pregnant woman eats  
porcupine it will give her child abcesses and stomach problems.
 
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jafr_0399-0346_1990_n
um_60_2_2458   (163)
 
 
 
Jim  Chevallier

Comparing early and late medieval food in France
http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html