SC - European Food

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/9/00 7:00:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
grizly at mindspring.com writes:

> I had presumed that an item of ubiquity in cuisine would have been 
mentioned 
> in one of these texts somewhere.

I wouldn't be so quick to make that presumption, personally.  After all, 
these were "cookery books" and such that they were writing, and not 
all-encompassing cyclopaedia.  I have never come across a cookbook in which 
the author included a recipe he/she does not like.  Perhaps these gentlemen 
simply found the potato and (poisonous?) tomato to be unfit for a tome on 
court cuisine?  Or, maybe they simply weren't widespread enough to be 
"popular"?  Who knows, really, what motivated these people when they wrote 
their manuscripts?  Not me.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

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