[Sca-cooks] Getting Proactive

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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.>>>

Perhaps it needs to be listed under foods,cuisine, or meats of the middle
ages and renaissance as not everyone would think to look under spices.

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