SC -Mus, Brei and confusion

[LrdRas@aol.com]

- --- Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
> On a slightly different topic (the original one was
> tomatoes in period 
> Turkish cooking), someone tried to convince me this
> weekend that red-skinned 
> potatoes are period because a) they grow wild in
> North America and could have 
> been found here by the Vikings who came to North
> America; and b) some Norse 
> document or saga refers to a "foreign white root". 
> Needless to say, I was 
> not about to accept his word as documentation, and
> got referred to 
> "authenticity police" when I said I would like to
> evaluate the evidence for 
> myself.
> So, can anyone give me more detail on where this
> "documentation" might have 
> come from, and what merits it might have?
> 
> Brangwayna
> 

I have never heard of any documentation on this.  It
sounds like pure speculation to me.  Sort of on the
order of, "I know duct tape isn't period, but if they
had it they would have used it."



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Mordonna The Cook
SunDragon, Atenveldt
a.k.a.
Pat DuBose Griffin
Glendale, AZ

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