SC - Non-Period??

[Michael Macchione]

On Mon, 4 May 1998, david friedman wrote:

> At 5:57 AM +0000 5/4/98, Kornelis Sietsma wrote:
> >You know, on reading this I had a sudden flash ... I saw a person in the
> >25th century unearthing this e-mail from an old backup CD, and rushing out
> >to tell his re-enactment group "I found it!  Proof that peanut butter and
> >jelly is pre-21st century!"...
> 
> Except, of course, that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are written down
> in a multitude of places that will almost certainly survive into the 25th
> century--including this post.

I see a 25th century person would have the opposite problem that we do.
Today, we overdocument everything.  Television, radio, on the web,
thousands of cookbooks, menus...  People would probably assume that if you
can't document something at all then it must never have been prepared that
way.   I know that I personally have a number of recipes that I have come
up with that have never been written down, nor have I seen them made
elsewhere.


In period, I would suspect that less than 1% of all recipes were ever
written down.  A lot of standards like bread weren't written down, and
some cultures just didn't write any recipes down (the Irish are a good
example).  And just how much do we know about what the peasants ate on a
regular basis?

Kael


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