Historic (rec.food.historic) Discussing and discovering how food was made and prepared way back when--From ancient times down until (& possibly including or even going slightly beyond) the times when industrial revolution began to change our lives.

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On Wed 08 Feb 2006 09:37:23a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it J Wexler?

> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Richard Wright wrote:
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>> COPAC shows that there is a 1948 edition of "Good Housekeeping Cookery
>> Book, i.e. with 'wartime' omitted. That's about the right time to be
>> looking in cookery books.

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> I have a slightly later edition, from a date when whale meat was certainly
> available, but it doesn't get a single mention. Nobody would have bought
> the book if it had dealt with whale meat. Good Housekeeping was for
> respectable and conscientious housewives who would have been deeply
> offended by the suggestion that they might serve up whale. The book is
> silent also on the subject of horse flesh, for much the same reason.


Then I'm sure it did not also mentioin cat or dog.

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