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

[Stephen Bloch]

Genevieve writes:

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

Yes, 1579 is technically within the SCA's period, but if we have no
idea how (or even if) it was consumed by humans, and it was only found
in one or two isolated places in Europe at that time, we can't really
conclude from that that "chocolate is period".

					mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
                                                 Stephen Bloch
                                           sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
					 http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
                                        Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University