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) ***************************************************************
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