SC - Archaeologists Recreate Famous King's Entombed Meal

[Jenne Heise]

> The sad thing about all this is that the 'immanent scholars' almost never 
> publish their recipes. I contacted the site about the availability of 
> original or translated recipes and received an answer that they were 
> unavailable.

HOOT! Um, did you actually read what was going on? Of COURSE there are no
'original or translated RECIPES'! What there is would be the reconstructed
recipe created by the scholars or translators. There IS no original RECIPE
because they weren't WORKING from a RECIPE. 

> $150.00? Give me a break. A fool and his money soon part
> especially when those who have the responsibility to teach and pass on 
> knowledge still with hold that knowledge after requiring such a ridiculous 
> fee to eat possibly 'period' food but are unwilling to part with the research 
> that led them to their 'probably' wrong conclusions.

Actually, they probably are publishing exactly the research they did in
some scholarly archaelogical journal. They probably won't publish the
recipes because they realize that all reconstructions are subject to error
factors. What they will probably publish (or have published, get a
sympathetic academic librarian to hunt for it for you) is the exact tables
of the analyses of the contents of the jars that they used for
reconstructing the idea of the dishes. However, the bones of their
research are on their website. 

Bear in mind that to archaeologists, the concept of reconstructing a
specific meal from the results is just 'playing'. That's why it was done
as a fund raising dinner for rich donors, rather than as part of a
conference.

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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