SC - Florilegium comments

[Elaine Koogler]

That seems to me to be a sad, narrow-minded response.  How can one understand
what one is doing today...in any art, craft or science....if they don't
understand what went before and where things came from?

Oh well, as my Mom used to say, "Everyone to their own opinion, said the old
woman when she kissed the cow" to which I would respond, "But who wants to kiss
a cow??"

Kiri

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/24/00 7:04:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> kelan at mindspring.com writes:
>
> << Nyckademus (who really did go to school for this cooking stuff) >>
>
> If where you went to school for cooking is anything like the one here, you
> learned many wonderful things useful in a commercial setting while the
> history of food in the middle ages was glossed over, presented with much
> misinformation and generally, viewed as a curiosity. I offered to  teach the
> part of the course dealing with pre-16th century cookery at the local
> university's food service course but the response I received was' Yes, you
> are correct but it really is unimportant." :-0
>
> Ras
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