SC - Archaeologists Recreate Famous King's Entombed Meal

[margali]

If you go and read the article, they are going to cook what they feel is going to
be acceptable to the little yuppies they are targeting - a boiled fennel bulb salad
drizzled with honey, and lamb stew made to the modern palate so that people won't
be overwhelmed with the period spicing. Gee, and tex-mex or indian isn't spicy?
margali


> 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.
> 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