Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony
- Author / Editor
- Cosman, Madeleine Pelner.
Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony
- Published
- New York: George Braziller, 1976.
- Physical Description
- 224 pp.; b&w and color illus.
- Description
- Describes medieval food preparation and presentation, providing over 100 recipes as an appendix. Chapter three, "A Chicken for Chaucer's Kitchen: Medieval London's Market Laws and Larcenies" (pp. 67-91) details the conditions of medieval London markets for food and drink (bread and baked goods, wine, beer and ale, salt), along with market laws and abuses (market locations and times, weights and measures). The description is cast as a fictional account of Chaucer or his wife, Phillipa, buying their foodstuffs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion