sca-cooks RE: Terminology

[James and/or Nancy Gilly]

Sue Wensel wrote:

> I had planned on teaching a Period Spices and Their Uses at the upcoming
> Aethelmearc War Practice.  I would dearly love advice as this is only the
> second class I will have taught (the first being Uses of Herbs in Periods or
> They had a plant for everything we use chemicals for).
> 
> Derdriu

Sometimes they had chemicals, too.

For what it's worth, I wrote an article on medieval spices, their
natures, and how to substitute for them for an issue of T.I., oh, about
nine years ago. Don't remember the issue or date offhand, but I remember
seeing it used as a reference in a bibliography for somebody's brewing
home page on the WWW. I might have it on disk somewhere, if it is an
issue.

Adamantius