[Sca-cooks] Earliest find of Medieval spinach?
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JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Mon Mar 24 10:45:19 PDT 2014
A recent article on spinach, courtesy of the MEDMED list:
Montaillou, famous for its Cathars, was excavated from 1998 – 2004.
Charred remains of spinach were found in the hearth and in pits
http://www.medievalhistories.com/medieval-spinach/
The article however appears to be based on older research. It mentions the
main archeologist for this site, Jean-Paul Cazes:
Le site castral de Montaillou en Ariège
Jean-Paul Cazes lien Archéologie du Midi médiéval lien Year 2006
lien Volume 4 lien Issue Suppl. 4 lien pp. 325-336
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/amime_1278-3358_2006_
sup_4_1_1594
But the carpological analysis was done by Marie-Pierre Ruas (who is pretty
much ubiquitous in these subjects) and Charlotte Hallavant, back in 2008:
Pratiques agraires et terroir de montagne : regard archéobotanique sur
Montaillou (Ariège) au XIIIe siècle
Marie-Pierre Ruas , Charlotte Hallavant lien Archéologie du Midi
médiéval lien Year 2008 lien Volume 26 lien Issue 26 lien pp.
93-129
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/amime_0758-7708_2008_
num_26_1_1661
Some nice pictures in the first article and Ruas' work is always
interesting.
For those with the right access:
The first Archaeobotanical evidence of Spinacia oleracea L. (Spinach) in
late 12th – mid 13th century A.D. France
By Charlotte Hallavant and Marie-Pierre Ruas
In: Vegetation History & Archaeobotany 2014 Vol.23pp. 153 – 165
Springer Verlag 2013
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
French hospital food in the Middle Ages
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/french-hospital-food-in-middle-ages.htm
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