[Sca-cooks] A question about a book

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> While Googling, I came across this book ... 
> 
> 	Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices
> 	by Andrew Dalby 

Wonderful, wonderful book. If you are interested in the history of 
spices, you want this books. However, if, like some SCA-cooks, you are 
only interested in period manuscripts and/or period recipes, you don't 
need it-- it's a secondary and tertiary source, not a primary one.

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"The toad beneath the harrow knows/exactly where each tooth-point goes,
The butterfly upon the road/Preaches contentment to that toad." 
			- Rudyard Kipling