[Sca-cooks] Ann Hagen: grain of paradise

[Jane Williams]

Jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote :

> >     But because she (apparently) is not familiar with Menagier, she
> > decided grain of paradise was cardamom
>
> Considering that several people on this list last year argued exactly the
> same thing (and I'm fairly sure all of them were familiar with Le
> Menagier), I'm not sure that you can blame this on not being familiar with
> that text.

Having only been on the list a few days, I'm not too sure what the arguments for and against are here: but I'm going to a course given by Ann Hagen on Saturday. Is there anything on the subject you'd like me to ask her? The list of ingredients we've been asked to bring does include cardamom pods.