SC - Re:the top 8 icks list

[Mordonna22@aol.com]

Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 4/30/2000 8:32:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> CBlackwill at aol.com writes:
> 
> <<  "In Homer's time cooks as such did not exist.
>  Female slaves ground the corn and prepared the food."  This brings to memory
>  another reference which may place corn well within period, though it slips
> my
>  memory at the moment.  I will find it and post it a.s.a.p.
>   >>
> Corn was a common name for cereal grain before the introduction of maize from
> the New World.  Maize is very late period at best.  The very earliest it
> could have been introduced is 1492, and it would have taken time to become
> common.  The earliest recipes we have for it are late sixteenth century IIRC.
> 
> Mordonna the Cook,
> SunDragon's Western Reaches
> Atenveldt
> (m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)
> 

Apparently some of the European countries, such as Germany, consider
maize to be unfit for human consumption.  I remember as a child in
Germany, being told that maize/corn was cow fodder, not human food.

Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, during what time period? 

evfemia at mail.com



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