OT - Re: SC - Re: saffron

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/5/00 9:40:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:

<< We do not (well, most of us anyway) 
 need to be lead by the hand our entire lives.  We are capable of making 
basic 
 assumptions without having it shoved down our throats.
  >>

BUT we have been taught to 'freedom.' Those in the middle ages were not. They 
were taught obedience and unquestionable loyalty to individuals. This freedom 
of expression that you mention simply did not exist for the vast majority of 
those whom you seem to think enjoyed it. Freedom of thought and the other 
freedoms we bandy about simply di not exist at that time. As an apprenticed 
cook you were expected to learn the exact craft of your Master. If you did 
not do so you were not allowed into the guilds as a member, you were never 
advanced to any place where you could possibly taint others with your 'evil' 
notions. This was true in most of the trades. In fact, such restrictions were 
the reason the Renaissance happened. Medieval cuisine became vastly different 
in the Renaissance and even more unrecognizable as medieval in the early 
modern period after 1450 CE.

Ras