[Sca-cooks] Medieval Jewish Banquet

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Ranvaig wrote:
> That wasn't the part that I objected to. With better editing my 
> comment would be
>
> But they are passing along this nonsense "spice... also hid any spoilage."

The exact quote from the article at jta.org is:
' "White sugar was considered a spice," Toaff said. "And salt and pepper were expensive because they served as 'refigerators' -- they preserved food, and they also hid any spoilage." '

So it looks as if he is saying that salt and pepper were preservatives - and "hid any spoilage." The wording is ambiguous as to whether he included sugar in that statement.

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