[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices..18th century viewpoint

[Sandra Kisner]

>Robin provided the text from Two 15th Century--
>
>For those that want earlier--- Pegge's edition of
>The Forme of Cury from 1780 is up now as an e-book on
>Project Gutenberg.
>
>
>Some excerpts from that 1780 introduction--
>
>In his general remarks about the roll he writes:
>
>Most of the _American_ fruits are exceedingly odoriferous,
>and therefore are very disgusting at first to us _Europeans_: on the
>contrary, our fruits appear insipid to them, for want of odour.

Interesting.  I wonder what fruits he was referring to.

Sandra