SC - questions
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Wed Jun 14 22:10:54 PDT 2000
In a message dated 6/14/00 5:43:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jenne at tulgey.browser.net writes:
<< Also, I notice that new SCA cooks are often
sent directly to collections of medieval recipes, rather than to the
secondary sources about food and cooking in the Middle Ages that purport
to give a background on the subject, and I'm interested as to why. >>
I seldom send a new person to secondary sources because of several reasons.
First, secondary sources are often the source of erroneous information.
Secondly, the area of medieval cuisine has expanded rapidly in the past few
years and with a few notable exceptions 'scholarly' works simply have not
kept up with the progression. Thirdly, as I have stated in the past, I think
that it is better to develop a skill from the basic sources rather than have
to be retrained.
Ras
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