SC - Chocolate documentation?
Lee-Gwen Booth
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Sun Apr 30 21:14:54 PDT 2000
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.
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