On the subject of medieval food, I just got the book, "Buon Appetito, Your
HOliness: The secrets of the Papal Table" by Mariangela Rinaldi, that has
favorite recipes of the popes, including St. Peter, Alexander VI, and it
even has Martin IV's favorite dish of pickled eels that he choked on and
died from.
Gotta love popes.
Wendy Reardon
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: chili peppers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Landes
> > >...my new version of Eudora (the one with those chili peppers to
> advise of
> >"flaming" messages--Richard,why have all of your messages rated three
> >chilies??)
>
> i think it's becauses of the use of words like antichrist (when i write
> it,
> i get two chilis). i've often wondered why. i think the system was
> built
> for non-academic discussions and assumes that when you speak of
> antichrist
> (got my third) and the like, you mean it. i think you'll note that all
> the
> postings about and deriving from andrew gow's article have three chilis.
>
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> Thank you for sharing this information, Richard. It is important to
> note that content, considered out of context, can be wildly
> misinterpreted.
>
> I wonder what content, in the Middle Ages, would have given rise to the
> medieval equivalent of the chilli pepper? And indeed: what was the
> medieval equivalent of the chilli pepper?
>
> Enquiring minds want to know; in the meantime, back to my preferred
> holiday reading, the *National Enquirer*. (True...)
>
> Best wishes to all list members, in the hope that any celebrations you
> may have had on 25 December were pleasant (and, as those who watch good
> television will appreciate, very unlike the events that unfolded on
> Albert Square on the show *EastEnders*),
>
> George Ferzoco
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