SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #346

[Aine of Nowhere]

sounds like a serious case of semantics to me mylord....
isn't there some sort of innoculation for that or should I just call
the period police?

david friedman wrote:

> At 11:21 PM -0400 10/22/97, John and Barbara Enloe wrote:
> >Milord Cariadoc,
> >
> >No, I did not say Medieval, I said within the period covered by the Society
> >for Creative Anachronism, Inc., a historical recreation group.
>
> You were responding to me. I was responding to Laurene. Laurene had posted:
>
> >A while back, after reading a few recipes on here, I made one of those
> >basic one-pot dinners.  It consisted of a thick Chicken stew, made with
> >potatoes, onions and a few green beans; homemade bread, and Mead served with
> >it.  It occurred to me half way through the meal that it could easily have
> >been a *medival* dinner!
>
> (emphasis added by me)
>
> I had responded by pointing out that:
>
> >Except that it couldn't have been. Potatoes were not used in *medieval*
> >European cooking, nor were green beans. And I cannot think of any *medieval*
> >recipe that is similar in style to what you describe, even aside from the
> >choice of ingredients--perhaps someone else on the list can.
>
> (emphasis again added)
>
> To which you responded, quoting the above exchange:
>
> >There are numerous documentations for potatoes in late period (last 25 or
> >so years).
>
> And I replied:
>
> >>I didn't say anything about "late period;" the word used in both the post I
> >>responded to and  my post was "medieval." Are you suggesting that 1575
> >>qualifies as medieval?
>
> Either your post was not a reply to mine--despite quoting mine and the post
> I was replying to in it--or your post only made sense on the assumption
> that 1575 was medieval. I assumed you had misread the exchange, assuming
> that when I and Laurene said "medieval" what we really meant was "SCA
> period." I was pointing out that I, at least, said "medieval" and meant
> "medieval."
>
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
>
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