SC - Documented Substitutions (Long)

[Bonne of Traquair]

In a message dated 5/1/00 7:06:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:

> "Corn" is a generic term for all cereals in Europe.  You seem to assume the
>  reference in Homer is to maize (Zea mays), also known as Indian corn.
>  Homer's corn was not Indian corn, but emmer, spelt and barley.  

I have been corrected on this statement, and will now have to go back through 
my archives of recipes with a more investigative eye...some of those recipes 
just didn't seem to taste "right" with yellow corn in them...Perhaps using 
another grain would yeild a better dish.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.