[Sca-cooks] Bad Cooking at Feasts - was Re: good taste

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Mon May 22 11:08:09 PDT 2006


grizly wrote:
>  
> Bad cooking also consists of using spices that are years old and 
> tiome/tempuerature abused.  cinnamon is one that happened locally that 
> had lost nearly all essential oils to become basically colored chalk . 
> . . but was used in a couple of dishes featuring cinnamon.  
> Unfortunate mistake that the docs couldn't hide.
On the other hand, is this not a reasonable approximation of the 
condition of spices by the time they were walked from Asia to Europe by 
the Silk Road, or shipped around the Horn?  OK, it might age better if 
left unground but still, something to consider.

Selene



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