SC - Unhistoric things we serve WAS:Shepherds Pie

[JVButlerJr at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/9/00 8:02:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:

> 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.

    In my own depreciation, I must admit to also being an inclusionist.  I 
tend to act with a philosophy of "That which is not expressly forbidden is 
permitted", since my own love of cooking and food drives me to learn as much 
as I can without thought to things like geographical boundaries.  I don't 
think I could ever concentrate on just one culture or area's food.

    Which means I am more forgiving about things like "documentation" when it 
comes to cooking food at a feast.  No, I don't want people to make taco's, 
but I'm not going to flinch if someone uses potatoes in their meal.

    Suleyman