[Sca-cooks] The great Medieval water myth

[Terry Decker]

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