[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Or with Damian's own text, which goes back to the eleventh  century.

If you're referring to the bogus addition, I did a general  search on 
Google Books. No, that wouldn't catch everything, but if the story had  any 
currency before the latter half of the twentieth century, it certainly would  
have popped up somewhere.

The first place to look for many ersatz food  stories is in the work of the 
eighteenth century writer Le Grand d'Aussy. Even  today food historians 
cite his claims uncritically and more than one error can  be traced directly 
back to him. His work is tremendously important, but includes  a fair number 
of errors.
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

Beyond Apicius (2):  recipes from other Roman sources
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/05/beyond-apicius-2-recipes-from-other.ht
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(http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-wine-water-and-beer-what-else.html) 







In a message dated 5/11/2014 9:01:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
johnnae at mac.com writes:

I'd  start there myself if I wanted to trace the  story.