[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 08:21 PM 4/12/2005, you wrote:
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>And slopping hogs and milking goats gives you how much insight into the 
>daily life of a widow in
>Chaucerian times??  I think this goes back to the arguement that there are 
>very few, if any,
>people on this forum who can actually speak from a position of knowledge 
>on this matter, or any
>matter pertaining to the Middle Ages or Imperial Rome....particularly when 
>it comes to the food
>and daily life of the times.  There simply isn't enough surviving material 
>to base any kind of
>*expert* testimony on.  It's all conjecture, whether you have a degree or 
>a dormouse...
>
>Willy d

As is all of the material you are basing your opinions on.

I'm done. I'll talk to others, but since you seem to have little but 
contempt for my work, I then have nothing more to say to you.

Elaine
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O it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it 
like a giant--Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II