SC - Re: table eating utensils

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/26/2000 2:04:40 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
RuddR at aol.com writes:

<<   So it seems as 
 though the Islamic stricture against eating with the left hand did not apply 
 in medieval Christendom.  Perhaps the custom of public hand washing before 
 dinner had something to do with this.
  >>
Or perhaps it was another case of wanting to be as different as possible from 
the "enemy"

Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)