[Artemisia] Looking for Italian Soup recipes/Tomatoes in Period

[KyneWynn/Sue]

It would be a turkey with the persona of a swan! :)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Tamar Black Sea <tamar at coteduciel.org>wrote:

> Oooops.
>
> About the "budding feast steward" comment: for anyone reading these
> recipes, I should probably clarify that many cultures in period did not
> use tomatoes. Having said that, I had a friend who did an Italian feast
> in Cote du Ciel years ago. She had lived in Italy and studied Italian
> cuisine. She was able to document the late period use of tomatoes in
> southern Italy.
>
> Speaking of foods that weren't used in period: I wonder if it could be
> acceptable to use a food that we use commonly, but explain that in
> period they might have used something else. The examples I'm thinking of
> are substituting something like turkey for game birds that were common
> in period, but are expensive, or unavailable, or unappetizing to modern
> palettes. For example, people used to eat swan or peacock at feasts.
> Most of us can't get these birds, and wouldn't want to eat them even if
> we could. I wonder if we could dress a turkey up and explain that it
> might have been a swan in period.... :-)  (maybe you could call it an
> ugly duckling :-)
>
> -tamar
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