290674 Tue Oct 29 11:26:38 -0800 2002 3 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1578748 Stumbled across this site and found it interesting. Reminded me of a time I ate at the "Golden Bowl" in Florence. It's a private dining club. The chef told us that he combs through the books at the Local Library and recreates some of the medieval dishes he finds. The menu is broken down by Centuries. But there was no Boiled Peacock on the menu, thank god Link: http://www.godecookery.com/incrd/incrd.htm#012 Tue Oct 29 11:26:38 -0800 2002 0 SLAP 1 1578758 Hmmm...pretty gruesome, really, even for one accustomed to doing some home butchery. "Medieval cooking" brings to mind a great and mostly forgotten flick from '94 called "The Ref", in which Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey play the warring couple from hell and Denis Leary a burglar who quickly turns referree once stuck in their midst. The wife is a "culinary historian" and we find her putting on a dinner party (might be Christmas dinner, I forget) using all medieval recipes that sound perfectly inedible. It's sort of an anti-Chowhound set piece. Tue Oct 29 13:41:55 -0800 2002 1578748 0 GG Mora 2 1578764 While we're sharing peacock recipes, here's a link to an earlier discussion. My pests disappeared, so I didn't have a chance to try any of them. Saturday I hosted a dinner at home of Mesopotamian/Sumerian foods (pre-Islamic) that was a huge success. Not at all anti-Chowhoundish. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/287062#1542051 Tue Oct 29 14:29:03 -0800 2002 1578758 0 Melanie Wong 1 1578806 If you read the link you'll find that the bird was actually spit-roasted, not boiled. This was a common recipe in the middle ages and fell out of favor when turkeys started replacing peacocks on the finer European tables. Tue Oct 29 20:19:54 -0800 2002 1578748 0 Peter Hertzmann