[Sca-cooks] Structure of an Elizabethan Feast?
Aruvqan
aruvqan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 09:26:42 PDT 2016
I really like Ivan Day, though he tends to ramble between lots of eras -
http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/
Cooking The Books is an abandoned blog, but had some really interesting
stuff - http://tudorcook.blogspot.co.uk/
The Cold Table is also interesting - http://cathyshistoricfood.blogspot.com/
Medieval Cookery has some more interesting stuff -
http://medievalcookery.blogspot.com/
Culina Historica is a German based blogger -
http://culina-historica.blogspot.com/
On 4/22/2016 11:50 AM, Joel Lord wrote:
> So I'm heading up the feast for The Feast of St. Nicholas in Queen
> Elizabeth's Court next December, and I'm finding one critical piece of
> information awfully hard to track down. How would the feast itself
> have been constructed? I can find all sorts of sources for what they
> were eating, decorations, characteristics, all sorts of things. But
> the over-arching flow of the feast, not so much.
>
> The day is intended to be a completely immersed day of celebration in
> 1560, which is to say food and entertainments. My hangup is that I
> can't figure out if I'm currently planning far too few dishes or far
> too many, or if I'm trying to stick sallat in the wrong place... I've
> spent far more time digging in to either earlier England, or even
> moreso elsewhere in Europe.
>
> Any good sources anyone can recommend?
>
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