SC - History of Biblical foods on Food Network
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Tue Apr 25 06:25:17 PDT 2000
I understood that the program was using more archeological sources than
scriptural, but I could be wrong.....
Kiri
RichSCA at aol.com wrote:
> I didn't get a chance to see the show, but it is such a coincident. I just a
> new (to me) cookbook yesterday - Biblical Garden Cookery by Eileen Gaden It
> has recipes and history lessons in it. But how accurate for this List, the
> recipes I are, I have my doubts for in the preface, second paragraph the
> author writes: "For these peoples and from careful reading of rich
> scriptural sources, we have a good understanding about food and it's
> preparation in biblical times. Although no recipes as such have come down to
> us, we do kow which foods were in use"
>
> Rayne
>
> In a message dated 4/24/00 6:10:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
> ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:
>
> <<
> Yup, saw bits and pieces of it....what I saw looked really good. I'm going
> to
> watch and see if they show it again so I can tape it.
>
> Kiri
>
> "Michael F. Gunter" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did anybody else catch the Biblical foods episode on Food Network
> > last night? It was pretty interesting about ancient foods and how
> > different cultures placed taboos on different items. Also how a lot
> > of the traditions have come down the centuries to modern day.
> >
> > They showed a lot of ancient techniques used for centuries and
> > still used today like a stone hand grinder for wheat, a donkey powered
> > olive press and an oven where they bake the bread on the sides.
> >
> > There was even a scene where people were dipping lettuce leaves
> > into a jar of clear liquid. (Sound familiar?)
> >
> > I did catch a couple of things I questioned but it was a pretty neat
> > show. I hope they show it again soon. Hey, anything other than 18
> > hours a day of Emeril Lagasse!
> >
> > Yers,
> >
> > Gunthar
> > >>
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