SC - grains of paradise article
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Wed May 3 10:15:32 PDT 2000
In a message dated 5/3/00 6:51:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
caitlin_ennis at hotmail.com writes:
> I have noted as I poke into various food Encyclopedias in the bookstores,
> that none list "grains of paradise" as a spice (even Larousse's
> Gastronomique, which has othher errors, too. I think it is an interesting
> phenomenon, especially as other medieval or renaissance "cooking
practices"
> are often mentioned in passing...
Prosper Montagne's Larousse is not a medieval cookery book, after all...It
is, however, one of the greatest compendiums of culinary knowledge in the
world (IMO), in spite of the relatively few errors it may contain.
Balthazar of Blackmoor
Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
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