SC - PSP = paralytic shellfish poisoning

Jules A. Hojnowski jah11 at cornell.edu
Tue Feb 23 06:29:01 PST 1999


>The question is, how prevalent was PSP
>in earlier centuries, and did shellfish recipes change in response to this
>danger?
>Do old cookery books warn about this problem?

I do not recall seeing any mention of this in any of the original
manuscripts that I have work with. I am currently working
on an English one that is all preserving of food.  That one also
does not have any mention of a shellfish problem.  Sorry!

Jules/Catalina
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