SC - Re: .food riddle and query
Devra at aol.com
Devra at aol.com
Thu Dec 9 16:05:39 PST 1999
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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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