"graham" > wrote in message
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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

No. I just said that I was reading books about food history.