[Sca-cooks] Abysmally wrong EDiets article on medieval diet

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 03:46 PM 10/13/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Methinks, Herr Hoffman believes he has stepped into a virtual hornets nest.
>
>Here is his reply and my response.
>
>Bear
>
>THT WAS THE WHOLE POINT...YES, IT WAS DONE TONGUE IN CHEEK IN A HUMOROUS
>POINT OF VIEW...NOW I KNOW HOW DAVE BARRY FEELS...AND, I MUST ADD, SOME OF
>THE HISTORICAL INFO CAME FROM THE REN. FAIRE...SOME WAS JUST SPECULATION ON
>MY PART...BASED ON STEREOTYPES AND PERVERSIONS OF HISTORY....NOT REALITY...
>PLEASE...LAUGH...
>
>
>I've spent over 20 years learning about Medieval and Renaissance cookery and
>trying to demonstrate to people that Medieval cooking is not unappetizing
>brown glop.  Unfortunately, what you see as stereotypes and perversions of
>history are believed to be fact by many less knowledgeable people.  It's not
>very humorous when you regularly have to butt heads with it.

I think at this point it would not be a half bad idea if you were to say
just that to the eDiets editors, in particular pointing out that while the
author may have thought he was writing a humor piece, it was not presented
that way. They ought to know that he is misrepresenting their site to the
public.

'Lainie, not so thrilled with it herself.
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