SC - Chocolate documentation?

[Lee-Gwen Booth]

I have a feeling that one has to be careful taking the word "corn" on face
value.  My understanding (and I stand to be corrected on this) is that
"corn" is a generic term for grain in period.

Gwynydd

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Balthazar of Blackmoor

> according to the Larousse Gastronomique (though it does not give a primary
> source for this statement); "In Homer's time cooks as such did not exist.
> Female slaves ground the corn and prepared the food."  This brings to
memory
> another reference which may place corn well within period, though it slips
my
> memory at the moment.  I will find it and post it a.s.a.p.