SC - jerky documentation?

[Jenne Heise]

> a period where food writers were prepared to discuss, at length,
> dragging sides of beef in perforated barrels behind ships in salt water,

Did anyone other than Plat mention this? I've wondered about it since I
readit, because the way Plat wrote about it made it sounds as if he had
neither tried it nor seen it tried. (Someone mentioned somewhere --
Medeival Technology page? -- that this was done with Fish, though).

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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" Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees 
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, 
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!" -- Kipling