Fw: [Sca-cooks] Amateur vs. Scholarly Experimental Archaeology ansd more baklava...

[Phlip]

> On trying to reconstruct archaeological relics: this is an important
> technique. One of my wife's friends, a weaver and spinner, does this. She
> helped make sails for a Viking ship. Found out all kinds of interesting
> things in so doing. Amazing what you can discover about the world when not
> engaged in rectal-cranial inversion. But you are right about scholarly
> attitudes about this. Some reviewers of our book (Soup) could not get it
> through their heads that real recipes were involved and that cooking them
> was as important as philological analysis. One reviewer in particular.
Paul
>

And, vis a vis baklava...

"It occurs to me, that this could be extracted bean starch too. I just
discovered that the Chinese technique of making it got to Iran under the
Mongols." Paul

Phlip