[Sca-cooks] The great Medieval water myth
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Fri Nov 22 18:50:41 PST 2013
It's Squatriti. He's a Medieval history prof at Michigan. The author of
Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000.
Terry
>
> Sorry, Paolo Squatrithi is who? Yes, I agree with him. Which is why you
> don't see it mentioned in reviews of period feasts or on the menus of
> these. How often do modern restaurants highlight water, even if they
> usually serve it?
>
> And as far as making the water "special", I think you have to go no
> further than the huge sections of water in the modern grocery store even
> though much of it is simply filtered municipal water.
>
> Stefan
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