Not Smithsonian Re: SC - Smithsonian dinner

[Elaine Koogler]

I was wondering about that...I belong to the Smithsonian, and had heard nothing
about anything of this sort.  But then lots of things go over my head...or
around it....or through it....it's my age, they tell me!

Kiri

Jenne Heise wrote:

> > occurred to me that, while everyone is critisizing the menu choices for
> > this feast, that perhaps someone on the Feat Team at Smithsonian already
> > thought of the possibility of guests becoming confused?  Perhaps they are
> > intending to serve a little recipe booklet with the meal (or some sort of
> > pamphlette) that would specifically indicate which items were found at the
> > archeological site, and which items are modern inventions???
>
> Well, it isn't at the Smithsonian, but at the University of Pennsylvania
> Museum of Anthropology and Archaelogy.
>
> Since the guy who did the research is going to be speaking at the dinner,
> I suspect that he will make it clear which dishes are based on his
> research. So I'm not worried about them, but about people who are not
> going to the dinner, just reading the website. (And this is not just
> taking potshots at strangers. I've had it happen often enough that when
> two sets of people create two different sets of documents-- which are
> connected via the web -- the documents taken together tend to give a false
> impression. It could happen to anyone...)
>
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise        jenne at tulgey.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>         "Scratch a lover and find a foe." -- Dorothy Parker
>
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