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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:
>This is a start ... Ordinances that state one cannot sell spoiled 
>meat or old food.  Can you
>find ordinances that state you cannot sell spoiled meat or old food 
>that have been covered in
>spices?  That would be the next step.  Or find ordinances that state 
>you cannot serve
>spoiled meat or old food for people to eat?  That would be the best proof.
>
>Huette

I know that there were, in addition to the laws already mentioned 
about selling old meat, prohibitions about pouring new blood over old 
meat to make it appear fresher than it was. But that's not a spice.

And... it was illegal, so that doesn't sound like one of those 
alleged myths-that-isn't-a-myth-at-all-but-in-fact-quite-prevalent.

Adamantius
-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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