Blurb: The King is coming to visit! For the lord and lady of Camdenton Manor, the announcement from the palace is an awesome challenge. The King travels with his Queen and court: rooms must be readied, tents set up, fields fenced for the royal horses-and above all, there is the great feast to concoct.The preparations take weeks. There is hunting and hawking, milling and baking, brewing and churning .... Then, in the great vaulted kitchen, the cooking begins in earnest! One after another the sumptuous dishes emerge -- succulent roasts, birds baked in Pies, and fantastic sculptures of pastry and marzipan. And to the music of minstrels, while jugglers juggle and jesters jest, the guests in the Great Hall eat their way through it all. The lord gives his King a feast to remember!With A Medieval Feast Aliki creates a joyful extravaganza to bring the character and colour of a distant world tantalisingly close.
The illustrations in this book match the medieval setting with illuminated letters and pretty embellishments on each page. There are also tiny captions for each illustration. The story is set in 1400. You can see inside this book here.
I spied this book in a school library yesterday and I knew it would be the perfect companion book to pair with The Amazing Meals of Martha Maloney. Sadly, though, I do need to report this book very ole but you might find a copy for sale. It was first published in 1983. How lucky the library I visited had kept it all this time.
About Aliki. She was born in 1929 and is the author of some fabulous books. I found a list of all her titles. Here are a few you might find in a school or public library:
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