SC - TI Article - Support Kitchen
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Tue Sep 12 12:05:25 PDT 2000
At 9:24 AM -0400 9/12/00, Jenne Heise wrote:
> > >When the heat is bad, it's hard to
>> >get anyone to eat anything, especially unfamiliar foods or combinations of
>> >foods.
>> One way of dealing with that problem is to make the fighters familiar
>> with the foods in advance, by providing them at events, fighter
>> practices, etc.
>
>Maybe I should have used a stronger word than 'unfamiliar'. Foods that
>violate the cultural mores that we grew up with, dividing sweet from
>savory,
To which my lady wife interjects "such as not serving ketchup with hamburgers?"
>etc., tend to be less appealing to the stressed stomach. Medieval
>people wouldn't have had that problem, because the pies, etc. were things
>THEY had grown up with and were part of their culture.
But the range of period recipes available is so enormous that you can
always choose ones that don't violate the cultural mores of the
target audience.
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