FW: [Sca-cooks] Paper twists of spice (Was spice storage)

[Volker Bach]

I think the main point is 'people bought their own containers'. I haven't made 
a deliberate study of it, but I can't recall a market scene in medieval art 
that has shoppers being given containers while I can think of several that 
show them carrying bags or baskets. 

Giano

Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 21:04 schrieb Johnna Holloway:
> Noticed that too--
> I still think the agrarian histories would be the way to go
> to research this.
>
> Johnnae
>
> Linda Peterson wrote:
> >Does this paragraph bother anyone else? There were no towns before the
> >16th century? Poor folk saved up all year in order to purchase in bulk?
> >That first sentence especially just seems odd to me.
> >
> >Mirhaxa
> >  mirhaxa at morktorn.com
>
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