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

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> I am sure that Amy Sullivan is good in her field.  However, I do question her use of such an
> old book, when there are many newer books out on the subject with more current data available.
> Could it be that the newer books didn't agree with her theories, so she rejected them for an
> older book that did agree with her theories?  I have no idea.

It's in a peer reviewed journal. That means that people other than the 
author had some control over what was in the article. Without tracking 
down this person, I can't tell if she's a tenured professor, or a 
graduate student or assistant professor. In any of those situations, 
someone might work in a reference to Drummond and the spoiled 
meat/spices theory to get it past a reviewer or senior department person 
that held that theory strongly. 

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