[Sca-cooks] Late medieval working class food in Basel

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

An on-going interest of mine is all the medieval food that tends to get  
overlooked because it wasn't in cookbooks; notably the food of the poorer  
classes. There actually is information out there if one cares to look, but it's 
 widely scattered.
 
That makes this paper (freely available to those on Academia.edu)  
particularly interesting. It reviews both the food and the salaries of some  workers 
in Basel in the fifteenth century:
 
La main-d’oeuvre et son alimentation à la fin du moyen-âge d’après les  
documents comptables. L’exemple de la région de Bâle, in: E. Rassart-Eeckhout 
u.  a. (Hg.), La vie matérielle au Moyen Âge. L’apport des sources 
littéraires,  normatives et de la pratique, Louvain-la-Neuve 1997, 179–203

https://www.academia.edu/5980315/La_main-doeuvre_et_son_alimentation_a_la_fi
n_du_moyen-age_dapres_les_documents_comptables._Lexemple_de_la_region_de_Bal
e_in_E._Rassart-Eeckhout_u._a._Hg._La_vie_materielle_au_Moyen_Age._Lapport_d
es_sources_litteraires_normatives_et_de_la_pratique_Louvain-la-Neuve_1997_17
9-203


Jim Chevallier
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