[Sca-cooks] Who Likes Mustard?

[Saint Phlip]

Is there music for it?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Sam Wallace <guillaumedep at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. It is short enough that I am going to provide the
> translation (from Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems edited by Deborah M.
> Sinnreich-Levi, Ian S. Laurie) as well as some links for reference.
>
> Always, never asking, mustard
> In Hainaut and Brabant I made
> attempts to order sauce with care,
> but in every in at which I stayed
> they always brought me, with my fare,
> with every roast and mutton dish,
> with boar, with rabbit, and with bustard,
> with fresh and with salt-water fish
> always, never asking, mustard.
>
> I took fresh herring, said I’d like
> carp at the pub for midday dinner,
> and called for a simple boiled pike
> and some large sole, to be my supper.
> In Brussels, I asked them for green sauce;
> a cleric stared and looked disgusted
> and a varlet brought me in, of course,
> as always, never asking, mustard.
>
> I couldn’t eat or drink without it.
> They add it to the water they
> boil the fish in and – don’t doubt it –
> the drippings from the roast each day
> are tossed into a mustard vat
> in which they’re mixed, and then entrusted
> to those who bring – they’re quick at that –
> always, never asking, mustard.
>
> Envoy
>
> Prince, it’s clear that ginger, clove,
> saffron, pepper are never trusted.
> There’s just on thing these people serve:
> always, never asking, mustard.
>
> It's a ballad, which the translators did a fair job of rendering into
> English while maintaining the poetic structure. The content reminds me of
> parts of Mark Twain's *A Tramp Abroad.*
>
> - Guillaume
>
> References
>
> Deschamps, Eustache, Oeuvres complètes d'Eustache Deschamps, ed. Queux de
> Saint-Hilaire and Gaston Raynaud, Société des Anciens Textes Français, 1894
> http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-5129&M=tdm
>
> Englebert, Annick, Eustache Deschamps et la moutarde, Gastronomie
> Historique, 2015
>
> http://www.diachronie.be/textes_gastronomie/1385-deschamps/1385-deschamps.html
>
> Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M., Laurie, Ian S., Eustache Deschamps: Selected
> Poems, 2004
> https://books.google.com/books?id=wJILngvQ-dYC
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