[Sca-cooks] Early French whaling

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

I see that our ever-alert list has already discussed whale  meat:

http://lists.ansteorra.org/htdig.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org/2010-January/03
0119.html


Google  tells me the Florilegium has material on it too, but for a day now 
when I try to  get to it (from three different browsers), I get:

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.florilegium.org
Access  a cached copy of 
_www.­florilegium.­org/­files/­FOOD-­MEATS/­whale-­meat-­msg.­html_ 
(http://www.­florilegium.­org/­files/­FOOD-­MEATS/­whale-­meat-­msg
.­html) 

(The cached copy is a skeleton.)
 
 
I have now made my own contribution to the subject, focusing largely on the 
 hunting itself:
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/01/whaling-in-medieval-france.html


As for the meat (the blubber, really), if you don't want to have it with  
peas, how about fried, with a little ginger-almond sauce?

Jim Chevallier

Feasts and All Their Finery
Elegant Dining in  Old Regime France
http://chezjim.com/books/legrand-feasts.html