[SCA-Cooks] Medieval cooking for non-cooks

[Ted Eisenstein]

>Tantalus lived in Asia Minor at a time when gods and men mixed freely and even ate
>together. Tantalus abused this privilege and served up his son, Pelops, to the gods. They
>immediately realised what he had done (except Demeter, who was so upset about
>Persephone that she inadvertently ate a shoulder) and Tantalus was punished in the
>Underworld by being kept eternally just out of reach of food and drink (hence "to
>tantalise").

"If the gods hadn't wanted us to eat people, they wouldn't have made us of meat."
-- Flanders and Swann, The Reluctant Cannibal (".....a chorus of yumms ran around
the fire. Roast Leg of Insurance Salesman......")

Alban