[Sca-cooks] Re: Mastic for Stefan

[Terry Decker]

Mastic is used in Apicius 3, Absintium romanum sic facies: (Make Roman
absinthe thus:).

Bear

>I gather that that's where it grew, and its usage
>spread from the Arabic areas to every place else- I'm
>thinking that if we look, we might find it was in
>vogue in several odd places, during the latter part
>of, and shortly following, the Crusades. We might also
>find it in Rome, during the Empire, when there was so
>much trade between Europe and North Africa.
>
>Phlip