[Sca-cooks] Vegetarian politics aside.....

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:31 PM 11/12/02 -0500, Kirsten wrote:

>the funny thing is.. in PERIOD a lot of the non meat dishes *would* have
>been trying to imitate meat...

I would be very interested in seeing some solid documentation on that. I
know of occasional subtleties, but that is not a lot.

... so the TVP casserole is a period type of
>item.. but the much better quality "vegetarian and not ashamed of it" dishes
>are less period..

That is a bit like saying you are a 'less' pregnant- either you are or you
aren't...

>because so much attention was placed on meat (or illusion
>type dishes)

Didn't someone recently (in the last year or so) do a count of meat vs.
vegetable dishes from some of the more common cookbooks in the corpus? Was
that Cariadoc, or someone else?

'Lainie
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