[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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