SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)
LrdRas@aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Thu Oct 26 19:22:16 PDT 2000
An interesting definition of the difference between herbs and spices, but
not the one I use. Herbs are the leaves or flowers of a plant, spices
are everything else - bark, roots, rhizomes, seeds, seed pods, etc.
Christianna
> As to peasants growing spices and drying them in woodcuts: I
> suspect you miught be confusing spices and herbs. Herbs are
> generally leaves and stems of sub-tropical plants while spices are
> generally tropical in nature. There is some crossover likely, but
> we should probably clarify what was being grown and dried. If Black
> Pepper would have grown in southern France, I bet money they would
> have tried it. Same with other spices continually imported from
> South and East.
>
> niccolo difrancesco
>
>
=========================================================================
===
>
> To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message
> to
> Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe
> SCA-Cooks".
>
>
=========================================================================
===
________________________________________________________________
YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit:
http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list