[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... (a few excerpts fromApicius)

[Huette von Ahrens]

The Apicius cookbook was written between 400 and 500 AD, which is at least 800 to 900 years
_before_ the first MA cookbook was written.

Huette

--- Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > --- Chris Stanifer <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > In this case, so long as the recipes were not written *after* the middle ages, then the
> > argument
> > > for common food adulteration remains valid.
> > > 
> > No that isn't true.  Just as cooking in the Middle Ages has changed in the six hundred or so
> > years since then, cooking changed from Apicius' time to the Middle Ages.  I would say that
> > Apicius reflected his time, but not that of the Middle Ages.
> 
> 
> The assumption, I believe, is that the recipes in question may have *actually* been written
> during
> the middle ages (possibly later??), and not during the time of Apicius.  If this *is* the case
> (and I am not saying it is) then the argumeent holds true.  The comment you take issue with
> above
> was in reply to this theory.  If they were written during the middle ages, and they speak of
> food
> adulteration, then it can be assumed that food adulteration was practiced during the middle
> ages.
> 
> WdG
> 
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> 
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