SC - Thin is in . .. .lose the butt fatty!

[Christi Rigby]

I ran across a recipe in Platina (don't remember which one at the moment...I'll
try to find it) that called for corn meal/flour.  I asked about it and was told
that the translator (it was an early translation prior to Milham) had translated
the Latin word Platina had used as "corn" and that it was a common mistake.

I don't know.....I went ahead and used plain old flour instead.   Now what you're
saying makes me wonder.

Kiri

CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/30/00 8:15:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> morgana.abbey at juno.com writes:
>
> > Those of us who are late period can have all the chocolate, potatoes,
> >  tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, vanilla, turkey, etc that we want.  I like
> >  this.
>
> Don't forget corn...I believe the Italians imported corn from Syria, though I
> can't find the reference again right now (still looking, though).  Also,
> according to the Larousse Gastronomique (though it does not give a primary
> source for this statement); "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.
>
> Balthazar of Blackmoor
>
> Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
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