[Sca-cooks] Period Preservation Tech.

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

Does Tostig cutting up his brother's retainers and sending the pieces back
in hogsheads of wine count?

References will need to get looked up when I am again home where the books
are, of course.

Margaret FitzWilliam

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, gtaylor wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm putting together a talk on period food preservation techniques for
> the Alexandrian Symposium.  I've several books, but would appreciate
> further info/references.  I'm also looking for period food-related
> horror stories.  Does anybody know of any historic food poisoning
> anecdotes?  I'm imagining that folks were pretty careful,
> pre-antibiotics (except for those antibiotics that grew naturally in
> ham...but that's another story)...but am keeping my fingers crossed.  Of
> course, there's always Ergot...but someone is teaching an independent
> class on that..
>
> Isobel
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