[Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1206 - 13 msgs

[Marilyn Traber]

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Should we ressurect the thread from what - 3 years ago? where I pointed out
that we could get flash frozen mammoth from siberia. So it is a bit early
period <WEG> but it does conform to the letter of the rules [maybe not the
intent ... but we have lots of lawyers in society willing to split
hares...coneys in brodo anybody?]
margali
the quote starts here:
Your point is because we do not have precisely the same ingredients or have
the tastes of a preceding society, we can not recreate the dishes of that
society exactly.  True enough, but we are not doing "period cooking."  We
are doing historical recreation. Historical recreation is an approximation
of the past and it is a tribute to our knowledge and abilities to make our
recreations as accurate as possible.
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