While we're on the subject of food - medieval Corleone and Sicily

If you're wondering about medieval food in Sicily - I ran across this wonderful article that talks about the Arab history in Sicilian cuisine - lemons, oranges, sugar cane, sherbet and sorbets and a few other fascinating things - check out this link - as you know, Corleone is the setting in Book #3 of The Vespers Trilogy that Ysabella & Co. flee to after the cataclysm of Aragon and Angevin in Palermo.


Check out this link - https://www.academia.edu/2292026/Food_in_medieval_Sicily

Medieval gnocchi - before potatoes came to the Old World

Gnocchi has always been one of my favorite Italian meals - but most gnocchi is made with potato flour and there were no potatoes in the Mediterranean in the 13th century - potatoes like tomatoes didn't make it to the Old World until the 17th century.


So how did they make gnocchi?  With mashed cheese, eggs and a little flour.


I can see Ysabella making gnocchi to go with her rabbit stew or perhaps a medieval potage.

See this picture at merryfarmer.net