[Sca-cooks] Medieval questionaire
Elaine Koogler
kiridono at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 15:54:56 PDT 2007
Yeah, I had a problem with a banquet being compared to a buffet. I guess I
was thinking in terms of people having food brought out to them by servers
and placed on the table vs. standing in line, helping yourself! Sigh.
Kiri
On 10/27/07, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
wrote:
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> I got some of them "wrong", too, but it's basically a crap shoot on
> whether the reader will make the same specific suppositions (and often
> generalizations) the author has made. When data has to be qualified
> for time and place (IOW, almost all of the little quiz), it's easy to
> be simply unaware of what answer the author is looking for.
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> I believe he tosses the term "medieval" around without defining it by
> time and place, so, for example, tea or baked means may or may not be
> medieval, according to your guidelines.
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