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Mentions of food in Chaucer's Cantebury Tales.

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Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 13:52:31 -0500
From: johnna holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Food mentions in Chaucer

Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Has anyone ever researched the food referances in Chaucer? I know
> Adamantius recently mentioned there were some, and I found a more
> complete referance to this in the Florilegium, but right now I
> don't remember what subject was being discussed.

http://www.godecookery.com/chaucer/ccookery.htm
has A Chaucerian Cookery:
examines the references to food and dishes in all
of Chaucer's writings, studies the dietary habits
of his characters, and gives a complete list of all
foods Chaucer refers to. Included is A
Chaucerian Feast, which presents an authentic
Medieval feast based on the writings of Chaucer
and corresponding 14th c. recipes.

Johnna Holloway Johnnae llyn Lewis

Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:35:58 -0500
From: johnna holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Food mentions in Chaucer

See also:
http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/feast.html
and the paper by Hieatt, Constance B.
" A Cook of 14th-century London: Chaucer's Hogge of Ware."
Cooks & Other People.
Oxford Symposium on Food, held in 1995.
published 1996, pp. 138-143.

Johnna