SC - Rarity of Fermantation recipes (was Fermented Beverage Recipe Question(was:RE: SC - Mic.....)

[Knott Deanna]

> While I do not disagree with what you are saying, there are some other
> things going on here.  Apicius wrote his cookbook long before guilds came
> into existence. 
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> I think its kinda funny that Apicius doesn't give a bread recipe because
> he figured if you were a cook you would know how to do it.  
> 
> Yours,
> Avelina Keyes
> 
As a small aside, the first commercial cooks in Roman Italy were bakers.
Commercial Roman bakeries pre-date Apicius.   I' d suggest that Apicius
ignored bread because he bought it from the best baker in the city.  

While the Roman bakers may not have had a guild as the Middle Ages knew
them, I'm willing to bet they had some kind of organization to ease
competition and adjudicate disputes.

Bear   
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