SC - Islamic alchohol?

[david friedman]

At 4:10 PM -0500 2/28/00, Jeff Gedney wrote:
>  >  They were often done by artsy types who
>  > tried to show how artsy they were instead of cooks wanting to feed
>  > people.
>  > I'll never forget the "raisin feast" ugh.

And Brandu replied:

>This sounds very much like out here in the East.
>I'll never forget the Twelfth Night feast which was done entirely of
>pickled foods, some of them rather poorly done. The rationale was "in the
>winter that would be the only type of food available".

How many of these are done by people who haven't actually cooked from 
period cookbooks, and are simply inventing period food on one or 
another poorly informed theory of what they must have eaten?

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/