SC - New World Foods-rant (was: turkey)

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/15/00 5:20:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE writes:

<< .....<snip>.......Sure, the recipe statistics looks different for other 
cultures. Thank
you for pointing that out.
 
 Best,
 Thomas >>

Yes...all the sources His Grace posted are Andalusian sources which means 
Spain which means Europe. To dismiss these sources as not European and as 
equally valid as other European countries would be as absurd as dismissing 
Forme of Curye because England is an island separated from the European 
mainland, IMO. Other cultures than what? I fail to see the relevance of your 
statement.

What is your point? European cultures are European cultures regardless of 
their country of origin and certainly no culture was any less important than 
any other. Each country had it's own culture and to single out a particular 
culture over another seems to me to border on the line of absurdity.

I am not criticizing your post so much as trying to understand the logic 
behind it. The fact remains that we have many hundreds of recipes dating from 
pre-13th century CE Europe that can be used in feasts. The fact that they are 
from Andalusia is totally irrelevant so far as there usefulness in 
reproducing pre-13th century CE European feasts.

Ras