SC - roundels and tablecloths

[Laura C. Minnick]

In a message dated 6/19/00 2:40:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jenne at tulgey.browser.net writes:

<< Primary sources for food (and for that matter for cookery) include, in
 addition to recipes, descriptions of foods and their preparation in
 letters, histories, traveler's accounts, health handbooks and herbals;
 agricultural documentation; legal restrictions and requirements [the
 equivalent of FDA regulations]; paintings and other illustrations; menus;
 inventories of food in household accounts; household handbooks; religious
 restrictions and requirements; and pretty much all other documentation
 that involves food. ;) >>

True but what you are describing is an entire course rather what a new person 
should do to BEGIN. I think that is what many on the list have been saying. 
They have been describing an entire gamut of instruction and forgotten that 
the actual step one is period recipes.

Of course, many threads continue on and on until the actual original 
supposition is all but lost in the well meaning and very good advice that 
follows the natural expansion of the thread.

I was not aware that answering what a new person should do entailed laying 
down a complete 'course' outline........which, of necessity involves getting 
to know the student and their specific needs with appropriate recommendations 
being given as they are needed.....


Ras