[Re: [Sca-cooks] 1492 cookbook]
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at efn.org
Wed Mar 26 19:48:00 PST 2003
At 08:19 PM 3/26/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
>"Trust that magazine to get things wrong as usual."
>
>Ha, figures, we got a gift sub for a wedding present and so far I'm not too
>impressed. This reaffirms that assessment.
>
>"It's not 1492. The work was published by Pynson in 1500.
>You can check the archives for SCA Cooks to see the discussion
>we had about the book last summer."
>
>I wondered - but couldn't quite pin down the niggling thought that it sounded
>vaguely familiar for some reason. So much for their "intensive research",
>again.
Not that it's a help, but somewhere in storage I have a wedding issue they
did, that I keep on hand as a negative example- their 'research'... well,
Father Abelard has almost recovered from our last encounter with their
research. The hair _did_ grow back, which surprised me...
I think the magazine is geared towards those to whom this is a 'quaint'
pasttime, and whose intellectual pursuit in the subject is along the lines
of 'Fun Facts to Know and Tell!'
Busy making Byzantine stuff for daughter Lydia. Having fun too!
'Lainie
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