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On 23/08/2014 10:10 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. I read a lot of food history books earlier this year. At one
>>> point in
>>> time, everyone had servants unless they were truly poor. Women did
>>> not know
>>> how to cook because someone did it for them.

>>
>> Not in your case... not all that long ago most everyone was a common
>> laborer, indentured to the landed... in your younger days you'd be my
>> tavern wench... then when your youth departed and you began to
>> constantly complain about everything you'd become a scullery peon.

>
> This wasn't in my time as I was born in 1959. This was prior to the
> Great Depression.

So you're not a student of history.
Graham