[Sca-cooks] Early French whaling

[Ana Valdés]

In Norway I ate whale and I found it really tasteless, it was cooked with
potatis and carrots, really bland :(
It taste a bit as chicken's white meat.
Ana


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:25 PM, <JIMCHEVAL at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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