SC - olives

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

I have poured through numerous cookbooks spanning modern back through the 
late 1700s CE. For all intent and purposes, the most widely recommended 
advise was to cook until fork tender. 'Tender crisp' is a relatively modern 
method of vegetable preparation (one I would like to see go by the wayside 
personally :-)), I would venture the opinion that most 'period vegetables 
were served fork tender when cooked.

Ras