SC - Smithsonian dinner

[KallipygosRed at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/26/00 4:47:18 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
Bronwynmgn at aol.com writes:

> Of course you can, if you want to.  But we were talking about a magazine 
>  article which was supposed to be about medieval European foods and which 
>  included soy sauce amongst the ingredients of one of the "medieval-style" 
>  recipes which accompanied the article.  Hence my original comment.

And I thought the comment had been made that the article never supposed to be 
purporting to offer "period" recipes but "medievaloid" recipes that could be 
cooked in the style of "period" dishes. Someone had said the article was 
accurate on styles of cooking, etc., but for modern palates, gave a series of 
recipes using modern ingredients.

Or did I get that wrong? If I'm correct in how the thread has gone, then how 
can one be upset with an article for not offering "period" recipes when it 
states out front it has no intention of doing so? I understand that we 
**all** have difficulty with misrepresented and misinformed facts stated to 
be documentation, especially in a published format, but it would be unfounded 
in the instance at hand.

Lars