Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe ROUTLEDGE MEDIEVAL CASEBOOKS Series Editors CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ AND MARCIA COLISH, THE CHESTER MYSTERY CYCLE MEDIEVAL LITURGY A Casebook A Book if Essays edited by Kevin J. Harty edited by Lizette Larson-Miller MEDIEVAL NUMEROLOGY MEDIEVAL PURITY AND PIETY A Book if Essays Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy edited by Robert L. Surles and Religious Reform edited by Michael Frassetto MANUSCRIPT SOURCES OF MEDIEVAL MEDICINE HILDEGARD OF BINGEN A Book if Essays A Book of Essays edited by Margaret R. Schleissner edited by Maud Burnett Mcinerney SAINT AUGUSTINE THE BISHOP JULIAN OF NORWICH A Book if Essays A Book of Essays edited by Fannie LeMoine and edited by Sandra J. McEntire Christopher Kleinhenz THE MARK OF THE BEAST MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN PERCEPTIONS The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and OF ISLAM Literature A Book if Essays edited by Debra Hassig edited by John Victor Tolan THE BOOK AND THE MAGIC OF SOVEREIGN LADY READING IN THE MIDDLE AGES Essays on VVcJmen in Middle English edited by Albert Classen Literature edited by Muriel Whitaker CONFLICTED IDENTITIES AND MULTIPLE MASCULINITIES FOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES Men in the Medieval U-ist A Book if Essays edited by Jacqueline Murray edited by Melitta Weiss Adamson IMAGINING HEAVEN IN THE ANIMALS IN THE MIDDLE AGES MIDDLE AGES A Book if Essays A Book of Essays edited by Nona C. Flores edited by Jan Swango Emerson and Hugh Feiss, o.S.B. SANCTITY AND MOTHERHOOD Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages ANNA KOMNENE AND HER TIMES edited by Annecke B. Mulder-Bakker edited by Thalia Gouma-Peterson MEDIEVAL FAMILY ROLES WILLIAM LANGLAND'S PIERS PLOWMAN A Book if Essays A Book if Essays edited by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre edited by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith THE MABINOGI THE POETIC EDDA A Book if Essays Essays on Old Norse Mythology edited by C.W Sullivan III edited by Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington THE PILGRIMMAGE TO COMPOSTELA IN THE MIDDLE AGES REGIONAL CUISINES OF MEDIEVAL A Book of Essays EUROPE edited by Maryj ane Dunn and A Book if Essays Linda Kay Davidson edited by Melitta Weiss Adamson Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe A Book of Essays edited by Melitta Weiss Adamson Routledge New York • London Published in 2002 by Routledge 711 Third Ave, New York, NY 10017 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Croup, First issued in paperback 2012 Transferred to Digital Printing 2010 Copyright 0 2002 by Melitta Weiss Adamson All rights reserved, No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storaee or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress_ Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent. IS6N13: 978·0·415---92994·3 (hbk) IS6N13: 978·0·415·80361·8 (pbk) CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Chapter 1 The Greco-Roman World Melitta Weiss Adamson 1 Chapter 2 Medieval Britain Constance B. Hieatt 19 Chapter 3 Medieval France A. THE NORTH Terence Scully 47 B. THE SOUTH Carole Lambert 67 v Chapter 4 Medieval and Renaissance Italy A. THE PENINSULA Simon Varey 85 B. SICILY Habeeb Salloum 113 Chapter 5 Medieval Spain Rafael Chabran 125 Chapter 6 Medieval Germany Melitta Weiss Adamson 153 Chapter 7 The Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Johanna Maria van Winter 197 Bibliography 215 Contributors 235 Index 239 Acknowledgments I wish to thank the contributors to this volume without whom the project could not have been realized. My thanks also go to Waxmann Verlag GmbH. for permission to reprint in English translation Johanna Maria van Winter's article "Nahrungsmittel in den Niederlanden im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert," which previously appeared in Nahrung und Tischkultur im Hanseraum, edited by GUnter Wiegelmann and Ruth-E. Mohrmann (MUnster and New York: Waxmann, 1996), 303-18; see Chapter 7, "The Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." Routledge Publishing I wish to thank for its enthusiastic support of the book. And finally, my thanks go to my husband, Alan Adamson, for his computer expertise and general advice in cultural and linguistic matters. vu This page intentionally left blank