SC - Chocolate documentation?

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/30/2000 11:28:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:

<< 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. >>

In British usage, "corn" refers to almost any grain.  Not just what Americans 
call corn, which they often call "maize", or sometimes "sweet corn".  You 
cannot take a British (or probably even a European) reference to the word 
"corn" to mean maize.

Brangwayna Morgan