FORKNI-L
Digest - 13 Oct 2008 to 14 Oct 2008 (#2008-228)
Tue, 14 Oct 2008
There are 4 messages totalling 122 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Thoughts on unfinished fics and a challenge
2. Thanksgiving (3)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:55:25 -0700
From: Bast Ankhsenet <bast_ankhsenet@y.......>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on unfinished fics and a challenge
Oh I have quite a few stories running around unfinished,
unfortunately none are Forever Knight... well, none that I can find.
There are about 4 unfinished FK stories on a missing hard drive
somewhere. :-/
Now if only I can find my muse and bribe her with chocolate and rum
to come back and help me finish these stories, I'd be fine. However I
have no idea where she buggered off too.
If anyone sees her kick her my way will you? :-)
~Bast
----- Original Message ----
From: Roxana Elizondo <roxeliz@h.......>
What kind of fics are residing in the dusty corners of your computer?
Do you think you could be prodded into having them see the light of
day? Is there anything fellow list members can do to help? How about
a story prompt that you feel you can't write but perhaps someone out
there can?
--Roxy
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:14:43 -0400
From: Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......>
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving
You're right that Nick wouldn't have tasted pumpkin pie in his mortal
days. Pumpkins originated in the New World. He couldn't have known
any kind of modern dessert pie, because sugar wasn't not imported
into Europe until ca. 1400. In 1228, European cooks still used honey
for sweetening.
McLisa
mclisa@m.......
> Pumpkin Pie, too, but I'm not sure about that.
>
>
> Walt Doherty
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
>
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:37:42 -0400
From: Gaylin Walli <gwalli@m.......>
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving
Well, it's still feasible that he might have had sugar as part of the
Muslim agricultural revolution, especially given the crusades going on
at the time. 1228 was the 6th Crusade and Jerusalem was using sugar at
that time and before, having imported it from India. But my personal
opinion is that it's unlikely he would have really eaten it in any
amount. At best, he tasted it. At first, sugar simply wasn't used the
same way we use it today, even when it was finally imported to the
western european continent.
Gaylin/Jasmine
On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Lisa McDavid wrote:
> You're right that Nick wouldn't have tasted pumpkin pie in his
> mortal days. Pumpkins originated in the New World. He couldn't have
> known any kind of modern dessert pie, because sugar wasn't not
> imported into Europe until ca. 1400. In 1228, European cooks still
> used honey for sweetening.
>
> McLisa
> mclisa@m.......
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:35:26 +0200
From: CousinLucilla <cousinlucilla@f.......>
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving
Actually the only relatives of the pumpkin family known in Europe
since antiquity were cucumbers, melons and zucchini-like plants. But
they were very different from the varieties grown today.
A tasty and refreshing dessert Romans loved (I ate it when I was
still running around with a Roman re-enactment group)
was melon with freshly ground pepper. Not quite right for
Thanksgiving though ;-)
On a sidenote: Sometimes I read that Lacroix couldn't have made the
peach comparison in LK because he wouldn't have known peaches. That
is actually not true. Romans knew and loved peaches.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because
they have to say something." Plato
Am 14.10.2008 um 16:14 schrieb Lisa McDavid:
> You're right that Nick wouldn't have tasted pumpkin pie in his
> mortal days. Pumpkins originated in the New World. He couldn't have
> known any kind of modern dessert pie, because sugar wasn't not
> imported into Europe until ca. 1400. In 1228, European cooks still
> used honey for sweetening.
>
>
------------------------------
End of FORKNI-L Digest - 13 Oct 2008 to 14 Oct 2008 (#2008-228)
***************************************************************
Knight graphics and parchment background created by Melissa Snell and may be found at http://historymedren.about.com/
