SC - regional american food

[deborah minyard]

In a message dated 12/11/00 12:37:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
stefan at texas.net writes:

<< I quoted just from Ann Hagen's summary. She has a whole chapter on
 the Anglo-Saxon pig including records on their breeds and sizes. I
 didn't think the list really wanted me to quote sections from the
 whole chapter.
  >>

I was not commenting on Hagen's work. I commented on '1000 Years.'. I looked 
at the bibliography in that book and found it to be riddled with secondary 
and tertiary sources. I also glanced through the book again and found a large 
proportion of his 'quotes' from period sources to be based on poetry, etc.

So for the record my comments were not directed at your personal pig theory 
but rather on '1000 Years' which I do maintain is a good read but not a 
prefered source of good  reference material, IMO.

BTW, IMO means 'In My Opinion'. I do have a reference  from Platina which you 
should have in yopur swine files which specifically states that  at least one 
pig was so fat it had a nest of mice living  in it's flesh'. I take that as 
at least  ONE valid primary source that does not conjecture but rather 
indicates that pigs were fat. All period refences to pigs that I am aware of 
do not state that the pigs were in fact skinny. Skinniness seems to be 
conjectured by the  writers you mention. Granted they may be correct for a 
certain section of England, I do not see that as indicative of general 
swinish characteristics throughout the rest of Europe. Perhaps I am missing 
something here but since this is an area I am EXTREMELY interested in I 
certainly would welcome an actual period quotation which stated that pigs 
were indeed skinny. On face value, I now have fat  quotes 1 and skinny quotes 
0. :-)

Yours in service to the Dream,
(which includes potentially fat pigs snuffling for acorns in oaken forests. 
Acorns, BTW, are relatively high in calories.:-))
Ras