SC - Unhistoric things we serve WAS:Shepherds Pie

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/10/00 5:23:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
grizly at mindspring.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.

>  Given the range of bizarre foods one finds in various texts, 
> some being singular references, it doesn't seem too logically removed to 
> assume the ONE of the Italian texts would have included at least one 
> reference to the fruit as an ingredient if not a dish in itself.  

I understand your point now.  Until something else comes along,  the books 
and records which have survived are all we have to go on.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Complacency Breeds Contempt