SC - paying for feast

[Kathleen M Everitt]

Concerning wild carrots:  I think caution is somewhat advised.  Many of the
the wild relatives of the carrot are edible, but bear a very close look to
the more poisonous kin.  Lord Ras is correct in that be sure before you
eat.  Most of the poisonous relatives of the wild carrot are nasty
smelling, and usually have purplish blotches on the stalks.  Here in
Ansteorra, wild carrot, wild parsley and hemlock can grow near enough to
each other to be confusing.  Also here are vast quantities of wild onion,
which have a companion plant called crow bane that looks very similar.  The
key is the smell.  I was fortunate enough to mundanely worked with a man
who wild plant foraged and learned a great deal about them.(He used to be
Society Master of Sciences early one)  He often ate things that I
personally wouldn't but were edible.  We rapidly had three lists of
plants... inedible, edible and gwilym edible.  His name in the SCA was
Master Gwilym the Smith.

Clare RSJ