SC - pre-1500 cookery

[LrdRas]

In a message dated 97-12-16 16:13:29 EST, you write:

<< There are disputes as to the beginning and ending dates of any "period"
 (in the historic rather than SCA sense).  Often people do not establish
 the parameters of their period of interest or assume that you have the
 same parameters or assume that you have some idea that such parameters
 exist.
  >>

There is , in fact, a clear line of distinction between Medieval and modern
cookery. Preperation, seasoning, and ingredients are distinctively different
aa well as more subtler things such as service and menus. I do  agree that
peremeters do not exist in the minds of some people do to a lack of knowledge
in the area. But a lack of knowledge does not validate an opinion that those
paremeters do not exist..

In the SCA, officially, the period in question is limited to pre-1650 C.E. In
actuality, heraldry for the most part stops at 1450 C.E. because of the
changes occuring then. Costuming goes to 1650 C.E. because it was not until
then that NOBILITY regularly wore pants. Cookery, likewise underwent massive
changes after 1500 C.E.

So, IMHO, serious researchers should cut off the date of inquiry into period
things when they obviously changed to "modern" things and not use the excuse
that corpora says it's OK because it is easier and more familiar. 

Ras
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