Re(2): SC - Cold Dishes

[Stonewall Van Wie III]

On 23 Apr 97 at 23:46, david friedman wrote:

> Imagine an ordinary American cook turned loose in a Chinese grocery store to
> buy ingredients for dinner; what he or she would end up producing would be
> much more like modern American food than like Chinese food. Now imagine a
> Chinese cook turned loose in your local supermarket to buy ingredients for
> dinner--the result would be a Chinese meal. Ingredients are not irrelevant--a
> potato or tomato in what is supposed to be a medieval meal is a bit jarring.
> But getting exactly the right ingredients is less important, if your objective
> is to produce the sort of food they ate, than knowing what they did with them.

A medieval cook turned loose in your local supermarket would be even more
surprised by all of the out of season foods there.  I would like a list that had 
period foods listed by season.  Not only would this help prevent me from 
serving period recipes with out of season foods, it should be cheaper too.




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