SC - King Midas :The Feast Recipes from U Penn

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In a message dated 10/19/00 7:42:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
betpulib at ptdprolog.net writes:

> The stew sounds
>  roughly right, but the fennel tart, while sounding delicious, was an
>  addition to the historic reality of the meal, IMHO.

Why? According tot he literature I got the feast, and the emails I had with 
the archeologist, the only addition to the feast where the ingredients were 
not found in the tomb, in containers together, was the dessert, a chocolate 
thing.  The archeolgist said at the time that he felt the dessert pulled from 
the authenticity he was trying to convey; but it was  a corporate decision 
because it is socially acceptable now to have an end-meal sweet and these 
people were paying to come to a feast. So, he caved on that. But everything 
else was supposed to be constructed from the ingredients of the containers 
under chemical analysis. Considering most of our redactions come from 
ingredient lists written down late in period, sometimes having very 
questionable quantity amounts in the ingredients as measurements, why 
wouldn't we feel the ingredients of chemical analysis are accurate to work a 
redaction from? Which is what the modern cooks were instructed to do.

Lars