[Sca-cooks] Substitute for Potatoes?
Judith Epstein
judith at ipstenu.org
Mon Aug 24 13:47:31 PDT 2009
On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
> You're thinking yourself into a box, again, Judith. The reason that
> Medieval people didn't need books to cook from is because they had
> traditions handed down to them from the cooks who taught them.
After all the discussion of "something isn't traditional just because
your grandmother taught it to you," this statement needs a wee bit
more detail to make it really, strictly correct.
> It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the
> smith.
Ironic sig: I haz it.
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