SC - Barony of 3 Rivers

[Brenna]

Technological advances not withstanding, cookery today is basically what
it has been since Neolithic times. People still roast, grill, and bake
their foods, using dry-heat techniques known, at least in rudimentary
form, for countless millennia. They still sauté food in small amounts of
fat, fry food in deep fat, boil food in liquids, and stew and braise food
in lesser amounts of liquid, as people have done since the invention of
pottery.
	The 15th-century discovery of the Western Hemisphere by European
explorers resulted in an increase of available food items both in Europe
and in the newly colonizing territories. Such New World natives as
potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, beans, cassava, corn, and green peppers
gradually became staples in countries throughout the world. Conversely,
such Old World crops as wheat, barley, rice, sugarcane, and soybeans were
carried to the New World with European immigration. We now live in a
world in which a nation's agricultural base may be substantially built on
introduced crop species. Such is certainly the case in the United States,
where agriculture is built on immigrant crop species. Not a single major
U.S. crop is indigenous.

	- Grolier Encyclopedia

Korrin S. DaArdain
Kitchen Steward of Household Port Karr
Kingdom of An Tir in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Korrin.DaArdain at Juno.com
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1709

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:32:57 +1000 Kiriel & Chris <kiriel at cybergal.com>
writes:
>Mary Morman wrote:
>> 
>> moan, groan, grimace.
>> 
>> sorry, david, it's just that every few months we seem to go through 
>this
>> potato thing anew...
>> 
>> elaina
>> 
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, David Wolfe wrote:
>> 
>> > I thought potatoes were period in Ireland... if I am mistaken... 
>please
>> > let me know.
>> >
>> > Could someone please send me a list of period no-no's for a feast.
>> 
>
>
>Well... this seems a good cue for... should we have a periodic FAQ 
>sent
>to the list, answering these sorts of questions which we get all the
>time?
>
>Kiriel
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