SC - Re: Questions

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/14/00 9:03:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
alysk at ix.netcom.com writes:

> I'm wondering if there is a misunderstanding of terms here...mine or
>  Stefan's.  I understood the use of "single manuscript" by Ras to be
>  the equivalent of saying "period cookbook".  If Stefan means that taking
>  5 dishes from the meat section, 3 from the fish, and X number from other
>  parts would not make a "provable" period menu, well perhaps it might not
>  but one might be able to justify it from menues that have been reported.

While there is nothing wrong with "making' a menu comprised of dishes from a 
single manuscript (i.e. "period cookbook"), the manuscript itself is _not_ a 
period menu, any more than a modern cookbook could be considered a menu.  It 
is a collection of dishes and reciepts.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Mr. Wizard, what happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?