SC - Re: non-messy, period, dayboard-type food

[LrdRas@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/29/00 7:00:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Tollhase1 at aol.com writes:

<< OK, where did they make cheese.  I would imagine that in the bigger 
cities, 
 their were cheese houses, but else where would not have cottage industries 
or 
 home based been more prevalent?
 
 Frederich. >>

In understanding the MAs, we tend to forget that each 'trade' was done by 
individuals. Each village had a shoemaker, a spice person, a leather worker, 
an apothecary, a communal oven. , etc., <insert specialist of your choice> , 
ad nauseum. 

Today we have Giant, Acme, Wegman's, etc. Then they had the cabbage man, the 
spice grinder, the apple grower, the pig farmer, the milk man, the cheese 
maker, etc. Even in the manor houses duties were specialized. For instance 
today the gardener takes care of everything, then there would have been the 
head gardener (e.g., overseer), the plowboy, the herb attendant, the fruit 
grower, etc., etc. Alternatively you would have went to the shoe shop, the 
produce street, the butcher's street with each merchant specializing in a 
particular animal, the cloth merchant, the thread merchant, the cheese 
merchant. Each of those in turn purchasing their product from the person that 
actually made it.

While any single individual might have knowledge of cheese making, that 
individual sold his product to the other houses. That is why it would have 
been rare to see such activity occur in any given household.

I hope I have clarified my thoughts......

Ras
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