SC - RE: Quince Pastes (long answer)
CBlackwill@aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Sun Apr 30 22:25:57 PDT 2000
fine with me to borrow the idea :). be sure all your "experts" agree on
stuff, and its useful to have a reference book or two handy to look things
up to disuade the people who insist that the irish ate potatoes in the
middle ages :)
good luck!
- --AM
At 11:35 AM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> But at public demos, we play our New World Old World food
>> game...we have a large pile of recognisable foodstuffs....a
>> can of corn. A can of cocoa. A bag of rice. A vanilla bottle.
>> Peanut butter. Canned greenbeans. a Head of garlic. We ask
>> them to divide the foods into two piles...what would Columbus
>> have known about before his little trip and what after. Its fun,
>> it gets people talking about history and food and how much our
>> diet has changed, etc. If they play and "win" they get a prize. A
>> small pamphlet of medieval recipes, for example. we give 'em
>> out to the "losers" too....:)
>
>What a GREAT idea! Do you mind if I lift it? I like the way it makes
>people interact with the concept. :)
>
>(And I think it might be safer than serving food to the public.)
>
>- Clotild
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