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

[Terry Decker]

> 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

Spices were primarily transported by sea, in bulk and in sealed containers. 
Delivery time was nine months to a year.  Most spices would have been 
reasonably spice when they were finally sold.

Bear