[Sca-cooks] Partly OP: Brown vs. white rice?

[Terry Decker]

One might try the London Public Records Office (as the gentleman who wrote
this http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/SPICES1.htm did) or possibly
even try the Royal London Archives.  Shipping manifests (other than those in
the Archives of the Indies in Seville) might be a little hard to find.  Port
records, on the otherhand, especially those in England, should be fairly
plentiful.

There are also some excellent sources in various economic history papers,
but most of those aren't webbed and have to be located and ordered from
academic publishers.  Johnna might prove more useful than I in finding such
sources.

Bear


From: Daniel Myers <edouard at medievalcookery.com>

>
>Many good points made by Bear and my crank theory is fully refuted.  I
>stand corrected.
>Bother, another perfectly good hypothesis shot down by those pesky
>facts (this is how we learn, eh?).
>
>So we're still left with the overall answer of "I dunno".  There's got
>to be something left to check - mill records?  Shipping manifests?