SC - Unhistoric things we serve WAS:Shepherds Pie
JVButlerJr at aol.com
JVButlerJr at aol.com
Wed May 10 04:34:47 PDT 2000
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
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