[Sca-cooks] Slap me in the face

[David Walddon]

Really I don't think that is what she is saying. 
What she is saying and what I also believe to be true is that the way you are presenting the knowledge that you have is not compatible with academic research and will be taken for nothing more than ramblings. The footnotes that include the mentioned dictionaries and authors also need context (which seems to be sometimes lacking) and consistency. 

I for one will not be looking at your second entry (or any others) as it seems that any advice is taken not for how it is intended, but as a "slap in the face". 

David Walddon


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On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Suey wrote:

> On 11/3/10 8:19 PM, sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org wrote:
>> Then I'm afraid there is little any of us can do to help you.  The reason
>> you are getting criticisms about whether your statements are valid and can
>> be documented is because it is perceived that you are not citing your
>> sources.  Just saying that you worked in such and such a library for some
>> number of years is not sufficient.  It would be comparable to my saying that
>> I believe that the Japanese sailed to the New World and taught the native
>> Americans how to make pottery based on the fact that I once took an
>> archaeology course as part of my Masters degree in Far Eastern Art History!
>>  For good or ill, that's the way it works.
>> 
>> Kiri
> I think that is a big dig. You are telling me that 17 years of honest work are worth nothing and that my footnotes are invalid which happen to include the leading dictionaries and encyclopedias, Cervantes, Shakespeare, la Celestina, Juan Ruiz, Hieatt, Lucie Bolens, Nola, Sent Sovi, Fadalat etc, etc, etc. I find that criticism unacceptable.
> All you do is look at hoopoe. I have bent over backwards thanking you and trying to correct it but we can't look at second base in my blog. Alcega is my second entry. Would anyone like to criticize that:
> 
> OCast açelga, Ar. silqa; L. Beta vulgaris, Ar. al-sulqa, silga, Fr. chardon (thistle), Eng Swiss chard, wild chard, a beet with white leaf stalks, “spinach beet” or “silver beet”. It is a fat fleshy legume with the appearance of a thick pale green carrot growing from 1.5 to 2m high. Although the root is inedible, it is like beets with large leaves and thick stalks. Greek and Byzantine documents confirm that it was cultivated and consumed as food by 600 B.C. As a native to the Mediterranean, it is thought to have originated in Sicily. In medieval times, Arab cooks claimed they brought it from northern Africa and introduced it to Al-Andalus. Until the end of the 13 C. chard around Cordova was not popular. Then it became a specialty for a minority, as it was an appreciated food item among Muslims and Jews. For Christians, it was monastical and poor man’s food. Slowly, however, chard made its way to noble tables as it adapted to the flavor desired and it was consumed in a great variety of ways. There are two types green, which are prepared like spinach or added to salads. They can be used as a substitute for asparagus. Both types are added frequently to stews and soups. The Muslims used the thick stalks separated from the leaves. From this came expressions like ‘beet fingers,’ which were actually chard stalks not beets. Further, Arabs boiled chard with chickpeas, pomegranate or sumac juice. The stalks too could be fried, baked, marinated or simply eaten with a little garum and salt and pepper. Villena’s chard is marinated, probably in verjuice, salt and pepper. By boiling milk and throwing the flowers on it, the milk curdled faster. Chard always has been recommended for vegetarian diets and thought important in the diets of the elderly for its high vitamin C, vitamin A and calcium content. Medieval Spaniards said, “edible chard is chard from the vegetable garden.” Gradually eggplant and artichoke dishes in Andalusia replaced chard but peasants continued to eat the stems. Medically, the plant is very important. To purge the head, the juice, with honey, it was put in the nostrils. It is good for earaches too. As remedy from dandruff and lice, the hair is washed with water in which chard leaves and the roots have been boiled. Further, this relieves itching. Raw leaves are rubbed on leprosy sores for the nitrous content and then the leaves are left on affected areas. This method also is used for ringworm and other sores on the skin. After boiling chard, it is applied to scabs caused by St. Anthony’s fire (see fuego de San Antón) and burns. Like beets, chard contains a high level of sugar and water out of which syrups, vegetable juices and medicinal infusions were made. To clean the intestines, people in the Middle Ages ate the roots and drank infusions. Also see cardo corredo, cardo silvestre and remolacha. [Capuano. 1988:90; Chirino/Herrera. 1973:238; Espasa. 1988:11:CANAL.866-867; Bolens. Cuisine. 1990:29; Gázquez. 2002:114:116:117; Nola/Iranzo. 1982:168; Villena/Calero. 2002:64; and Villena/Navarro. 1879:44]
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