[Sca-cooks] Bagna cauda

[Jeff Gedney]

>what is ancient in the 23rd century is not going to be the same as
>"ancient" in the 20th century<since B5 is so last century<g>>

by some accounts it goes back 4 or 5 hundred years (from today) in the city of Asti in the Piedmont region of Italy... according to the rumor, the town was a notable stopping point for a thriving but illegal salt trade, and used anchovies to mask salt shipments smuggled inland, and needed someting to do with the anchovies. 
Butter and garlic they had already in plenty.

BUT I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY CREDIBLE DOCUMENTATION FOR THIS RUMOR...
so dont take it as fact until soem corroberation is posted. 

Capt Elias
-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas

- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in the SCA 
than I can possibly have time for. It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue