SC - AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Louise Sugar]

Well, trying to find a hopeful note in this grim tale....

Are the garbagemen in your area allowed to scavenge from their routes?
Or the staff at the dump?  Or does the garbage company recycle?

If this happened in your town, it might be worth investigating.   Maybe
the books went home with someone, either for good or in transit to a
local used book store??  (or if somebody's really slick, and recognized
what it was, maybe they're on the way to a big specialty used book
dealer?)  Or are in a pile at the recyclers waiting to be baled...  One
can hope!

Chimene
 ----------
| From: Louise Sugar
| To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
| Subject: SC - AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 11:53AM
|
| While driving home this morning I passed a pile of boxes piled in
front of a
| house and saw some books on the ground next to them....I stopped and
was
| looking through the boxes...lots of odds and ends mostly broken and in
the
| pile of books there was....Traditional French Cooking
| Larousse/Curnonsky...a woman came out of the house and I asked her if
the
| books were hers...she said "no, we just bought the house and are
clearing it
| out...that's the last of the stuff. The old guy who lived here was a
cook or
| chef or something...we tossed boxes of books on cooking and stuff,
some of
| them were so old!"  Then she laughed.  I asked her if I could have the
book
| and she said "sure, I took out the stuff I wanted"
| The book is 'mostly' whole however she had taken a razor blade or
exacto
| knife and CUT recipies from the book!!!!!!!!!!!   I am wondering what
else
| she thoughtlessly tossed out as old and useless....one of the
neighbors told
| me that the man was a chef, was 95 yrs old when he died and had a keen
| interest in cooking and illuminated manuscripts.  All I can envision
is this
| man's precious collection at the bottom of some trash truck  :(  Lord
knows
| what was in it....heavy sigh
|
| Dragonfyr  :(
|
|
========================================================================
====
|
| To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message
to
| Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe
SCA-Cooks".
|
|
========================================================================
====
| 
============================================================================

To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".

============================================================================