[Sca-cooks] blue cheese? sampling spices?

[Kathleen A Roberts]

i hate to ask (cuz i know you learn more when you look 
yourself-- how many times have i told the students that!) 
but the first is just for passing info...

would a blue veinded cheese be in period?

what is the best way to taste spices?  i won a selection 
of of medieval spices (galangal, grains of paradise, long 
pepper) and would like to find out how they taste.  is 
just nibbling good, or should they have a vehicle like 
bread or chicken breast.

cailte
(the c stands for curious too)

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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which 
sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
W. B. Yeats
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Kathleen Roberts
University of New Mexico
Office of Freshman Admissions
Administrative Asst. III
505-277-6249