Michael Kuettner wrote:
> I was born in a Palazzo built in 1452.
> It survived the bombs of WW II with hardly a scratch, although
> a blockbuster exploded 40 metres away.
> Dang, that was quality !

Oh my! My drooling (and memories and yearning) must be NOTHING
compared to yours. How long did you live there? It never gets
out of your system, does it?
>
> Then you might be interested in
>
> <http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html>
> or
> <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/ant-rom-coll.html#9>
> or
> <http://www.oldcook.com/en/medieval_gastronomy.htm>
>

I do periodically sniff around such sites. I actually did do some
"medieval' cooking decades ago. (That's in quotes because of
the accuracy issue.) Now I find myself more interested in
colonial American cookery and how the cooking in this country has
evolved. Of course, one can trace that back to the "Old World"
and then from there to antiquity and the dawn of agriculture if
one so chooses. (You begin to see why my thoughts of writing a
book have kind-of stalled.... <g>)

--
Jean B.