Re(2): Re(2): SC - Caffeine in period

[Donna J. White]

Okay, I am dangerously showing my stupidity, but isn't 1579 within our
period of re-enactment/re-creation?

Genevieve

On 12 Jun 1997 13:04:55 -0500 "Sue Wensel" <swensel at brandegee.lm.com>
writes:
>>Actually, chocolate is the only one of the three that IS period in
>>Europe, if only at the tail end.
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>>toodles, margaret 
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>Actually, chocolate for consumption is just post period in Europe; 
>1579, I
>believe it was sent to Italy as a novelty, but no mention of it being
>ingested.  1631 is the first recipe I have found.  It was all the rage 
>in the
>New World (just to show that those uncivilized barbarians had 
>developed
>*something* good).
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>Derdriu
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