[Sca-cooks] Street food?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

The first question would be if there was street  food per se in the period. 
At some point in France, sellers of wafers  (essentially mini-waffles, 
cooked between two irons) were selling these in the  street, but I'm uncertain 
of when that started. This said, it would make a nice  food for an event; 
someone could design irons that stamp the event or seller's  logo on the wafers 
(instead of the religious imagery once common) and make a  show of cooking 
dough between the tong-like irons.

If one counts tavern  food as street food (and likely that IS what visitors 
most ate), the poet  Deschamps has a lively look at what he got in a 
Flemish  tavern:

Deschamps, Eustache, Oeuvres inédites d'Eustache Deschamps v1  1849
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvCu1Zf2qJsC&dq=inauthor%3Adeschamps%20inti
tle%3Aoeuvres%20moustarde&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false

Overall,  food does not seem to have been a big concern in the early fairs. 
Accounts of  them mainly mention textiles and, to a far lesser degree, food 
like eggs and  cheese which were sold as goods. But it's not like accounts 
of eighteenth  century fairs where gingerbread and other treats are 
regularly  mentioned.

Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

At the table in early  medieval France
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/06/at-table-in-early-medieval-france.html




In  a message dated 6/16/2014 9:16:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
canatsey86 at gmail.com writes:
I have a few resources on period tavern
food  from England,