[Sca-cooks] Flandrin: the medieval order of meal
Galefridus Peregrinus
galefridus at optimum.net
Sun Oct 20 17:34:45 PDT 2013
An English translation of this book is available under the title:
Arranging the meal: a history of table service in France /
It is available at a couple hundred libraries scattered across North America.
-- Galefridus
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> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:38:36 -0400 (EDT)
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> Having just returned from Paris, I was able while there to finally look at
> Flandrin's "L'ordre des mets", which studies the orders of services and
> dishes in various eras:
>
> _http://books.google.com/books?id=S_35L9mQCwIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22l'o
> rdre+des+mets%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvpiUoLXEbDWigLMzIHIDA&ved=0CDQQuwUwAA#v=onep
> age&q=menagier&f=false_
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=S_35L9mQCwIC&printsec=frontcover&dq="l'ordre+des+mets"&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvpiUoLXEbDWigLMzIHIDA&ve
> d=0CDQQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=menagier&f=false)
>
> His chapter on medieval food is fairly brief and mainly based on the menus
> given in the Menagier de Paris, which at first glance seem to follow no set
> order. His thesis is that there is indeed an order, even if it is more
> fluid than what is found later. From what I could gather in a quick reading,
> the gist of his idea is that the roast is always the center of gravity of
> the meal, no matter how varied the other courses are, and also that,
> typically, there is a symmetry in the number of dishes per course, even if the
> courses themselves are less set than later. While this still leaves a lot of
> room for variation, it suggests at least the outline of an order.
>
> He also points out that 'mets' and 'service' are not typically the same,
> but sometimes seem to be used synonymously here.
>
> For what that's worth.
>
> Jim Chevallier
>
> Comparing early and late medieval food in France
> http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html
>
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