SC - Re:period food/demo's

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

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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