[Sca-cooks] ELIZABETHAN KITCHEN

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 09:47 PM 4/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
>--
>Erm, okay -- I'm tall? The chairs and the furniture in the exhibits, and
>the doors and such, are cut for five feet.
>
>I don't have archaeological information, I have a sore head! And I'm only 5
>foot 8 1/2.
>
>Esther

Perhaps the exhibits are not properly done. You are only 4 inches taller
than I, and I'm pretty average. Henry VIII (contemporaneous to the supposed
time of the exhibit) was 6'-6'2 depending on whose measure. He preferred
small women (Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn were about 5'-5'2") but
they were remarked on an small- they weren't average.

What I was trying to point out, is that you made a significant exaggeration
(a foot or two shorter that you is 3'8" to 4'8"- both very short even by
Tudor stardards) . I suspect you did so without thinking. Stopping to think
before making an exclamation like that is a Good Thing.

'Lainie
-not nearly as cranky as I appear. Usually. Sorta. Maybe.
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