SC - TI Article - Support Kitchen

[david friedman]

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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