My thesis novel was set in 16th century Spain. You would not believe how many hours I spent trying to figure out if Golden Age Seville had marmalade and accordions.
From my limited knowledge, I would say yes to marmalade, thoguh it was probably not made with slivered peel but with pureed fruit, and maybe no to accordions, because I think they were invented in the 18th?
Right on both counts. The fact that the accordion is such a relatively recent invention definitely surprised me. I love juxtaposing completely unrelated innovations: for instance, the sex doll was invented before synthetic silk. History nerds! We have a humor all our own.
I had reasons to know those things. I got very interested in accordions for a while. There's one from Texas with my actual name on it, but it is too expensive to buy. The "Chemnitzer" is sort of a Lawrence Welk accordion, anyway. Oh, and if you like accordions -- well, I don't know, most people do not thank me when I link them to Bayan Mix, (http://www.youtube.com/user/bayanmix) but they are the only reason I can understand why people do real people slash. But I won't, I promise, slash these amazingly -- amazing -- fellows and their very weird star turn with their weird accordions.
As for the other, one of my friends does historical cooking re-enactments, and one of her recent projects was sixteenth century marmalade . . .
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Now I have to go look. Nope, early 19th.
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As for the other, one of my friends does historical cooking re-enactments, and one of her recent projects was sixteenth century marmalade . . .