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[Isabella di Giovanni]

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It makes perfect sense to me. If I know that I need to remember something, I do. However, if I write it down, or ask someone else to remember it..bam..it's gone.
Isabella
 Olwen the Odd <olwentheodd at hotmail.com> wrote:>On 21 Dec 2002, at 22:46, Isabella di Giovanni wrote:
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> > By the way, when was marzipan invented? Does anybody know how?
> > Isabella...who wishes she had that much talent
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>The oldest recipe for marzipan (though it doesn't use that name) is
>an Arabic one. I *think* it's from the 13th century Anonymous
>Andalusian Cookbook. The oldest recipe which uses that name (or
>a variant thereof) is in the 14th c. Catalan confectionary manual:
>"Per Fer Mersepa".

>Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann

Thank you Brighid. I put aside her email so I could go look it up. Odd,
seems I should know this stuff off the top of my head but I don't keep
information like that stored because I *can* look it up. hmm..does that
make sense to anyone?
Olwen

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