[Sca-cooks] Who Likes Mustard?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Deschamps is a good source in general for food of the time and a welcome  
counterweight to all those aristocratic cookbooks. It's strange that he 
attacks  mustard so virulently, though, since it was one of the oldest French 
condiments,  It was even found in a meal in an early Frankish grave.
 
It's probably worth noting that Deschamps is a little Swiftian overall in  
his bile. Check his poem on Brie.
 
Jim  Chevallier

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In a message dated 7/8/2015 9:20:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
guillaumedep at gmail.com writes:

Not  Eustache Deschamps! He wrote a rather scathing review of Flemish food
in  the 14th century that left no doubt as to where he stood on the subject.
It  also provides a list of things that were (probably) served in taverns  
in
the region at the  time.