SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)

[KallipygosRed at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/26/00 7:01:03 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
grizly at mindspring.com writes:

>  I suspect you miught be confusing spices and herbs. 
I concede on this point. But I figure what they didn't trade for, they could 
grow, and if they didn't grow/trade, they generally did without, didn't they? 
I mean, I remember the whole Grains of Paradise discussion, and Black Pepper, 
and Sea Salt/Kosher Salt/Rock Salt discussion, etc. And the woodcuts do show 
plant leaves, flowers, etc., being dried and ground. So, it wasn't that they 
were illiterate or incapable of getting/having. And it wasn't that they were 
primative cooking everything on flat stones in open, untemp controlled fires. 
They had some pretty ingenious ways of cooking, and creating. They knew about 
potting and bringing plants indoors for winter months. 

The point I was trying to make is I'm not near as well versed in what was 
period cooking techniques/receipes as the rest of you all are and **I** know 
that. You would think someone writing a **cookbook** would know more than I.

Lars