SC - Re: armoured turnips?

[Kimib2@aol.com]

Hi, Katerine Rountre here.  

Just a quick footnote.  Lord Ras writes:

>This holds true for other New World foods such as corn which can be
>documented as being grown in LATE period but it's documented use was strictly
>for animal feed. Human consumption is not documented per se and certainly was
>not readily accepted in noble circles. 

Actually, I have documented corn as used for human consumption.  The class
isn't clear.  But only in the form of bread, and not modern (baking soda 
leavened) corn bread.  For details, see

     http://www.watervalley.net/users/jtn/Articles/maize.html

But it's a *very* narrow window of time and place, and we don't know in any
detail what sort of bread anyhow.  Should people serve corn at feasts, based
on this information?  Who the heck knows what "should" means in this context?
All I hope for, is that those who choose to do so will make some attempt to
avoid false impressions of what we actually know of the record ("Of course
it's okay!  S/He's documented corn up one side and down the other!").

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry