Cindy Hamilton > wrote:

> We don't celebrate Hallmark holidays.

What holiday is not a Hallmark holiday, then? St. Valentine's Day
certainly has a very long tradition, harking back to the Middle Ages.
Its premise may be silly and unnecessary, but it has very little to do
with Hallmark and other commercialisation. You are not the first to
invoke Hallmark in this context on rfc, and I already had an occasion to
point to Sir Walter Scott's fairly extensive description of the holiday:
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/6e0bb556cbe4369d>.

One of the dishes mentioned by Walter Scott was "juice of the meat, held
a delicacy."

Victor