[Sca-cooks] Getting Proactive

[Johnna Holloway]

But Wikipedia in the entry on Spices already states:

"A popular modern-day misconception is that medieval cooks used  
liberal amounts of spices, particularly black pepper, merely to  
disguise the taste of spoiled meat. However, a medieval feast was as  
much a culinary event as it was a display of the host's vast resources  
and generosity, and as most nobles had a wide selection of fresh or  
preserved meats, fish, or seafood to choose from, the use of ruinously  
expensive spices on cheap, rotting meat would have made little  
sense.Footnote 6."

The footnote cites Scully, pp. 84-86.

It's there already in Wikipedia.

I did not find it listed as an urban legend in Snopes.

(If one doesn't mention the SCA, why would anyone need to contact the  
Media Relations Officers?)

Johnnae


On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:31 PM, kingstaste at comcast.net wrote:

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>
> You know, going ahead and doing a Wiki entry and a Snopes entry  
> submission isn't a bad idea.  I know it would probably be under the  
> jurisdiction of the Media Relations Officers, but a nice compilation  
> from this list (what I've seen so far has been good - although we  
> should probably leave out Lainie's "facts be damned" ;) ) could be  
> run by the appropriate SCA officers and then submitted for the  
> general public to find when searching.  We've got professional  
> libraians, and I think I remember someone on this list saying they  
> were on a Wikipedia editing panel, no?
> We have the knowledge and the technology, let's make use of it.
> Christianna