[Sca-cooks] Madeleine P. Cosman has passed on

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Terri Morgan wrote:

>  Dr. Cosman, author of the notorious Fabulous Feasts, has died in
> California.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/nyregion/19cosman.html
> and
> http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/23018.html

It's a popular pastime to dump on her in SCA circles, but say what we  
will, she did sort of help bring our joint field of interest into the  
mainstream.

Adamantius




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"Confessions", 1782

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