Lenten fasting was [Sca-cooks] Pattern welding meets cooking. . .

[Sue Clemenger]

Oh, no doubt that you're right! I just thought that if I couldn't do it 
for the whole 40, I might get a taste of it doing it the other way.
Frankly, at this point, I don't know nearly enough to pull it off.  It'd 
certainly be a fun project, though.
--maire, somehow envisioning a medieval version of that experiment the 
guy did recently, wherein he ate nothing but fast food for a month to 
see what it'd do to him physically/medically....

Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> At 10:01 PM 3/17/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> That's a cool idea! Wasn't there an article on something just along 
>> those lines with the last year or two in TI?
>> I've thought of doing something similar, myself.  Perhaps a lenten 
>> regimen when I *am* being Maire, and not just Sue? I'd maybe do it on 
>> the weekends I'm going to events that happen to fall during the season 
>> of Lent
> 
> 
> Well, if I do it, I think doing it the whole way would be the only way 
> to do it. Because if I do it, it will be with the idea of understanding 
> what it felt like to live in the middle ages (funny thing, that! How 
> novel!), and I can't get that effect if I only do it on weekends.... but 
> I'm funny that way, so never mind me...
> 
> 'Lainie
> -still with the Death-Rattle Cough. Someone please bury me...
> 
>> Laura C. Minnick wrote:
>>
>>
>>> By way of explanation, I'm not Catholic, nor am I religious 
>>> (anymore). But I wanted to get a feel for what Lent might have been 
>>> like for a woman in 1404. But I wanted to start small ;-). Perhaps 
>>> next year I'll try a full Lenten diet, which should be interesting 
>>> since I don't care for fish!