[Sca-cooks] SAD

[Nancy Kiel]

I think I was looking at it as "you can only eat what you have" and since
they hadn't settled in they didn't "have" anything to fall back on. A poor
medieval family would (one hopes) "have" more to begin with.



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson





>From: jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] SAD
>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:11:26 -0500 (EST)
>
> > A good idea of diet in winter is the Little House on the Prairie books.
> > Granted they're late 19th century, but when they are stranded out on the
> > plains during the winter, with no food and no trains able to bring any,
> > their diet is very limited.
> >
>
>I would say that _The Long Winter_ is a poor example of winter food
>because it was a pioneer community with few homegrown resources, under
>extreme conditions; but seasonal food appears in _Little House in the Big
>Woods_ and of course _Farmer Boy_ ... you get a better idea of what food
>was available in the 19th century to settled folk.
>
>-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>"Words can be your friend or your enemy, depending on who's
>throwing the book, so watch your language." Stoppard
>
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