[Sca-cooks] Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 9 10:04:26 PDT 2010


I was still married at the time and I let Jared to the ear-pinning, at 
which he excels.  <feral grin, with teeth>

Selene

chawkswrth at aol.com wrote:
> Ooooh, those would just about be Fightin' words. 
> I fully sympathize, for I have gotten the same thing from my family. I finally have had to tell them to go find their own interests, and to get their nose out of mine. It is none of their business as to how much was spent on what....
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> Selene-I do so hope you pinned that Realtor's ears back before you let them go. People who are in the business of selling needs to learn to listen to their Customer's Wants, not tell them what they want. Amazingly, one will sell more,  if you follow that one rule-"The Customer Rules". The return is receiving a higher commission, Doh....
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> A great many of our recipes that we use today does have a history going  back to our studied times and beyond. It is interesting to have documentation that shows how dishes have evolved over the centuries. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 11:17 am
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery
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> Hisssssss. I once fired a realtor who told me I didn't need a house with space for bookshelves, I just needed to get rid of my books. Glad you feel the same way. 
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> I think that Martha Washington was a Creative Anachronist, collecting historical recipes like we do. Just because she lived a couple centuries Ante Societatis, she was still an Anachronist! 
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> Cheers, 
> Selene 
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> yaini0625 at yahoo.com wrote: 
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>> It is ironic that this conversation has come up. My husband and I have a large library of various historical themes. Thanks to many of you the cookbook/food history section is now its own bookcase instead of a shelf. My brother and sister have recently gotten into "personal home base businesses" ie Amway and Airborne. They have been after us to join their businesses. We have explained we are not interested or don't have the extra funds. In total frusrtration my brother snapped " if you would quit buying books and amour you would have the money!" 
>> I think I will stick with my books and funny clothes. 
>> Aelina the Saami 
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