[Sca-cooks] What constitutes modern food
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 10:31:27 PST 2010
Ian Kusz wrote:
> Actually, I have this idea about sandwiches.
>
> Sops are period (of course). But what if a cook had a sop that they cooked
> too long, and it became dry? You could still eat it, but then you'd have an
> open-faced sandwich with a sort of mushy "filling" with mixed meat and
> vegetables. So, would this kind of open-faced sandwich with a cooked
> topping be allowed by our period police? What say you? I'm thinking,
> cooking it down to the consistency of, oh, exceedingly lumpy mashed potatoes
> with pieces of meat and vegetable mixed in.
>
Suddenly, I seem to be stepping into the role of the period police.
What the heck is the *point* of this exercise? It sounds like ruining a
good soup so you can serve squish on toast and pretend it's period?
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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-Georgeus Gershwinus
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