[Sca-cooks] The rotten meat thread

[Nancy Kiel]

Please remember that the ability to read and the ability to write are TWO 
DIFFERENT THINGS.  Just because a person signed with an 'X' instead of his 
name, doesn't mean he couldn't read a receipt.



Nancy Kiel (trying to be a champion for literacy)
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.




>From: SEBD at aol.com
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] The rotten meat thread
>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:02:02 EDT
>
>I personally  like the line in one of the articles that says that the list 
>of
>herbs and spices  were not so much recipe instructions to the cooks (who 
>were
>by and large  illiterate) but to the steward who had to know what kinds of
>spices to buy for  specific dishes. The cooks did then what home cooks do
>now--put in enough  spice or herbs until it tastes good.
>