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2008-09-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 If this subject interests you, try these sites:

http://www.godecookery.com/

http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-24 05:25|| 2008-09-24 05:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The book, "To The King's Taste" is a Modern English version of these recipes. Lorna Sass adapted the recipes, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art published it. We got a copy via Amazon.

Thirty years ago, I belonged to The Society for Creative Anachronism, or "How to recreate the Middle Ages without plagues, malnutrition, and outdoor plumbing." I was a feast cook. May I recommend these resources: Madeleine Pelner Cosman, "Fabulous Feasts"; Madge Lorwin, "Dining With Shakespeare"; and Odile Redon et al., "The Medieval Kitchen".

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-09-24 09:22|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-09-24 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 arrogant_french_mode_on

For God's sake who would ever want to read a book of English food?

arrogant_freench_mode_off

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-24 10:24|| 2008-09-24 10:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Now, now, JFM. It wasn't so long after the Norman conquest then. They might have brought over some recipes that those vile Saxons hadn't ruined yet.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-24 11:53|| 2008-09-24 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 JFM - LOL - ya broke me right up, man!! I'm going to giggle all day on that one. Bless your heart!

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2008-09-24 12:22|| 2008-09-24 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember, JFM, English monarchs mostly spoke either French or Castilian at court (and in their private lives often times as well) until Elizabeth I.

So there had to be SOME French Norman influence present at that time.

And you have to give the English credit for one truly great culinary invention, spit-roasted meat.

(As in an iron spit, not saliva).

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-24 14:51|| 2008-09-24 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I remeber that in 2004 we visited the D-Day sites. We dined at Bayeux who was in British sector and we had chicken cooked in calvados (brandy from apples)and cheeves. It was one of the best things I have ever eaten and I live in France. Next table was an English who had ordered the same thing than us and loked suspiciously at the contents of his plate a bit like if one of us had to taste roasted insects or similar delicacies while his wife detailed him the contents of his plate in order to overcome his reluctance. An ROTFL moment.

Posted by jfm">jfm 2008-09-24 18:19|| 2008-09-24 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 In a heavenly place:
The cooks are French
The policemen are British
The engineers are German
The lovers are Italian
The bankers are Swiss.

In a hellish place:
The cooks are English
The engineers are French
The policemen are German
The bankers are Italian
The lovers are Swiss.

Posted by mom 2008-09-24 18:53|| 2008-09-24 18:53|| Front Page Top

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