SC - Herbs for spit-roasting meat?
harper@idt.net
harper at idt.net
Wed Oct 25 17:28:56 PDT 2000
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Hupman, Laurie" <LHupman at kenyon.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)
> Let me apologize up front, I should have been more clear. My local
> newspaper ran a review this morning of a new cookbook: traditional Wiccan
> cooking. From the article, the book seems to perpetuate the same old
myths
> about medieval food that we constantly see popping up elsewhere,
especially
> the idea that medieval food was heavily spiced to hide the taste of
rotting
> meat. Of the three representative recipes included in the article, one is
> for apple scones and the other for chocolate "All Hallows' Eve Cakes." I
> have my doubts about the authenticity of the scones, as I do not know as
> much about baked goods as I should, but I really don't think the chocolate
> cookies qualify as medieval Wiccan cooking. Another recipe, referred to
but
> not reprinted, is for one of the authors' grandmother's tamales.
In terms of historical accuracy, yes - blah.
> My problem is not that it is Wiccan, but that it does not present an
> accurate picture of medieval cooking. Instead, it uses the veneer of
> Wiccanism (is that a word?) to present the same shoddy research and
> half-truths that we've tried so hard to dispel.
Wicca is the proper word in this case </grammer&spell-check>
I'm not sure I got the same feeling - I didn't read it as if they were using
a veneer of Wicca to somehow "validate" their poor research (if in fact any
research was done)... but then, I didn't read it too teribly closely.
- -j-
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