[Sca-cooks] Re: tomato evidence

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In a message dated 7/13/2002 4:46:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
helewyse at yahoo.com writes:


> .  Why
> do tomatoes have to be included in the meal when there
> are many good Italian recipes out there without them.
> If they want a period feast go with the known recipes.
> If not then just make up whatever you want, just tell
> people that there is no evidence that it was eaten.
>
>

There do not HAVE to be tomatos, the head cook would like to use tomatos if
she can find reference for them, hence this question to the list.
Frankly, I am thrilled that she is making any effort on her own to use period
recipes or sources at all.  Her last feast, for a Middle Eastern event,
(while excellent from the cooking standpoint) was entirely composed of modern
Middle Eastern recipes (or so-called ME recipes) harvested from the Internet
and at least one recipe that I believe is her own creation.  The two before
that used period recipes only because her co-head cook did the research and
handed her fully redacted recipes.  There have recently been several
well-researched and presented feasts here in our local area and I believe
that she has been inspired to  try to do more research by them.  The last
thing I am going to do is turn her off using period stuff by giving her a
blanket "You can't do that!"  Instead, I am looking for ways to guide her to
he information that she needs to do this as authentically as possible.

Brangwayna Morgan