SC - Re: .food riddle and query

[Devra at aol.com]

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First, the riddle--

When I recently took a course on food and the history of cookbooks from 
Andrew Smtih (History of Ketchup, etc) he said that prehistoric man had 
located or domesticated all but two of the food items currently used.  One 
item he cited as added to the food group in historic times was coffee.  Our 
dates on that vary, but most seem to be after the start of the Common Era.  
However, he never told us the second food item that had entered man's 
knowledge after prehistoric times.  has anyone got any ideas?  [One of the 
students suggested twinkies, but we pointed out that all of the things in 
twinkies--except perhaps the preservatives, but those aren't food, 
really--were known.]

Second question--one of my friends would like to locate a source of powdered 
malt, like the malt that the man at the corner candystore used to put into 
the milkshake to make it into a malted.  I haven't found any sources--King 
Arthur Flour sells diastolic malt, but that's not the same.  Do you think 
malt syrup would work?

Thanks for your help with this

Devra the Baker -- mka Devra Langsam
Poison Pen Press
www.poisonpenpress.com
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