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[beadz]

What was the worst thing you were ever directed to taste, in your career, AND, who was the cook, where, etc.?

[Peter Elbling]

Before I answer this queston, you must realize that I

became a foodtaster against my will and knowing that

any meal could be my last, robbed me of any enjoyment

of food.

Of course, no matter how hard I tried, every now and

again something would slip through because it was so

good or so bad.

The worst food I ever ate was in Milan at a banquet of

the Sforza's while I was visiting there with my Lord, Duke

Federico. We had one meal in which lemons was served

with every dish. I do not remember the cook's name but I

do remember things were not going well between the

court and Duke Federico because he had been winning at

cards. There were lots of dishes with fowl in them,

thrushes and sparrows and so on, and I was pased a

dish and told to taste it. I thought this was the same.

It had also been roasted and I could smell the pepper

and the sage and the lemon. By that time I could idenitfy

what was in a dish just by smelling it. I only took one

small bite of the meat and I wanted to throw up. It

turned my face into a sour lemon and it had nothing to

do with the lemons. Later on, I discovered that the cook

with some other tasters had roasted an old lame crow

and served it to me.

[Peter Elbling]

In my opinion squirrels taste awful. You can fry

them, boil them, roast them, it makes no difference. They

say further south in Umbria, the squirrels eat trufles so

perhaps they taste better there, but in Corsoli they

must eat stones because the meat is like rock.