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[Peldyn@aol.com]

    Actually, I think peasant grub is pretty much peasant grub wherever you
go. They don't have fancy-schmancy spices, exotic cooking utensils / vessels
or recorded recipes, and they eat whatever they can get their hands on.
Variants are determined largely by available ingredients, cultural
traditions, and religious taboos.
    What we're re-creating is what the upper classes ate, because that's
what got written down. Peasants were illiterate, right? I doubt very
seriously that there was much cross-cultural contact between the Italians
and the Irish; the profit potential simply wasn't there, and there was no
political imperative, either. Now, Scots - French, yes! (Yeah! Haggis au
Vin!!) Or Byzantine - Venetian . . . (Couscous al fresco?)

    Sieggy

>  It
>  is a great wonder to me that, when it was so common and frequent in
>  Italian settlements (so they say), that they feast upon these tubers,
>  cooked with the flesh of mutton, >>
>
> It is also a GREAT wonder that this describes basic Irish Stew! Who woulda
> thought that Irish stew is actual an Italian dish? Am wondering if the
> Italians traded extensively with Ireland and that the dish we know as
'Irish
> Stew' actually is an import from Italy? Any thoughts?
>
> Ras