Kathleen Fisher
Food for ThoughtI'm reading Taste by Kate Colquhoun, a book that explores the history of Britain through food. I know it's magnificent because I've been obsessively experimenting in the kitchen with tidbits from the Roman occupation to Tudor times. Justin, my husband, never knows what might appear on the dinner table: it could be a buttery pastry filled with sweet potato and olives or a blancmange of rice boiled in almond milk, both Medieval in origin.
Peacock, however, is one thing I certainly won't serve.
The ancient Romans could only stomach the bird's tough flesh by mincing it into rissoles, Colquhoun writes. Medieval lords in Britain had peacocks carefully skinned, roasted with cumin and re-stitched into their plumes for novel table centrepieces. One can only imagine the food poisoning that resulted from the unhygienic mix of cooked meat and raw skin!
2 comments:
this a beautiful shot Kathleen,it looks good enough to eat!!
Ha ha. I think I'll stick to consuming peacock photographically thanks. They really are such magnificent-looking birds ... surely they were put on this earth purely to please the eye.
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