[Sca-cooks] Forezians at the table, XIIIth to XVIth c

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

The province of Forez has never really been on my radar:
 
"Forez is a former province of France, corresponding approximately to the  
central part of the modern Loire département and a part of the Haute-Loire 
and  Puy-de-Dôme départements."
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forez   
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forez

But somewhere along the line I downloaded - and then forgot - this  
document which takes a detailed look at funereal meals in the region over  several 
centuries, taken from instructions left in local wills:
 
LES FORÊZIENS A TABLE, DU XIIIe AU )(Vie  SIÈCLE
documents.irevues.inist.fr/.../2042/.../02%20TEXTE.p...by M GONON -  ‎1974

http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/3273/02%20TEXTE.pdf

No recipes and nothing really surprising, but lots of local words for  
different foods, including "succana" for bread dipped in sweetened  wine.

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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