SC - questions
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Wed Jun 14 22:45:22 PDT 2000
At 1:58 AM -0400 6/15/00, CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
>Again, I believe the "preparations" mentioned in Du Fait were not for an
>actual feast, but for a "worst (or best) case scenario". I believe it was to
>be used solely as a model if the cook _ever_ had to prepare for a feast that
>large.
Personally I think Chiquart was trying to talk his boss into doing
such a feast, but that's only a guess. But the tone of the book
implies that this is the largest size feast that gets done, not that
it is a proposal for a feast larger than anyone ever does.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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