[Sca-cooks] Note to "spices hide the taste of bad food"
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Wed Oct 23 09:46:04 PDT 2013
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
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