[Sca-cooks] Summary of where foods came from

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Sharon Gordon wrote:

> Can anyone point me to a good online or book summary that lists the  
> origins
> of foods.  I am trying to help out someone who is working with a  
> garden for
> young children.  They are wanting to do more regions than are  
> covered by the
> SCA.

You might look at Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking". The  
information isn't in a chart format; it's more spread around the  
book, but it's probably more accurate than, say, Waverly Root's "Food".

Adamantius




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