SC - For Bronwynmgn - Response from author of horrible periodfoods art...

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/10/2000 5:24:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< Let's see now...I have Wilson's Food and Drink in Britain, and Ann
 Hagen's "A Handbook of Anlgo-Saxon Food Processing and Consumption". I'm
 probably missing some of this thread, owing to an attack of real life.
 What specifically were you looking for? >>

Yes, I just realized I got my books and names mixed up.  Specifically, I am 
looking for documentation to refute several of the author's claims in this 
article, and in her response to me:
1. There were no ovens.
2.  Made dishes (such as pies, sauces, chireseye) were unknown in this time 
period.
3.  No spices were available in Europe in the period around 1000 AD because 
they hadn't yet been brought back by the crusaders.
4. The only bread availabe was flat, unleavened bread.
5. The only cooking utensils were a large pot, a daggerlike knife, a ladle, 
and a shallow earthenware frypan.
6. No foods were harder than pease porridge cooked in a cloth, because 
people's teeth were in such bad shape they couldn't chew anything harder.
7. Everyone in a household ate out of the same wooden trencher with with 
unwashed hands or a single wooden spoon. 

Since she felt it appropriate to say that my arguments carried no weight 
because I used later sources (at least mine were relevant, and of higher 
qualitythat newspaper articles and encyclopedias), I'd like to give her the 
same arguments with sources from the time period (roughly 1000 AD) in 
question.

Brangwayna Morgan