SC - Coriander vs. cilantro
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Tue Oct 28 22:49:00 PST 1997
At 12:12 PM -0800 10/28/97, Ron and Laurene Wells wrote:
>>potatos aren't period.
>> margali
>>And later, Dame Fiona herself said:
>> Second, as far as the potatoes are concerned, the recipe was
>> published in a German cookbook in 1598.
Does anyone know which German cookbook? Off hand I can't think of any with
that date. It would be interesting to look at the original recipe. I have a
vague memory that someone mentioned a secondary source recipe for rosti,
but not a translation.
> I had seen that comment before that "Potatoes aren't period" but I don't
>see how this is possible. There were Irish people living during Medival
>times, and potatoes in Ireland are a STAPLE food!
And have been for several hundred years.
>In fact, I saw on TLC
>once, where hundreds of thousands of Irish men women and children starved to
>death at one point (sorry, it was a few months ago, and I dont' remember the
>date cited)
Mid 19th century.
> I'm far from an expert in
>Medival cooking, but I do not see how potatoes could be anything but period!
1600 is a long time ago.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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