[Sca-cooks] Chicken Spinners?

[Terry Decker]

I don't recall ever seeing string roasting in a medieval context.  I 
remember seeing the technique being associated with the Eastern Woodland 
tribes, but have no ready source to call upon.  And the Apache apparently 
used the technique for torture rather than cooking (again, no citation). 
The technique appears in a number of North American cooking texts from the 
19th Century and shows up in Dickens's Dombey and Son.

Bear

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I don't recall seeing these in the depictions of medieval roasting over 
fires.

Has anyone else come across  them in medieval illustrations?

Johnnae