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[Browning, Susan W.]

In a message dated 4/21/00 10:45:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:

> 
>   We do the same sort of things today, just from a different point of view.
>   How many of us enjoy a cold beer with a bowl of hot chili? Or a dry red 
> wine
>   with a beef roast? As good as that tastes to us, a Medieval person might
>   well have wanted a different, sweeter wine, to balance the perceived hot,
>   dry nature of mature beef.
>   

Granted.  But where is the problem with substituting one hot/dry ingredient 
for another?  How about pork for beef, or duck for chicken?  We all know 
these items are period, right?

Balthazar of Blackmoor?

Such a strange fascination, as I wallow in waste
That such a trivial victory could put a smile on your face.
                                        - Mark Burgess