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Food History: Food before the "New World"


Fat Guy

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Back at the VERY beginning (the non-public beta period) a few dozen of us were all Xtra-ordinary and Xtra-privledged.  We had to wear Dashikis and those funny brimless hats and were all known by "X" labels.

Not.

Since then Fat-Guy got a brim...

=Mark

Give a man a fish, he eats for a Day.

Teach a man to fish, he eats for Life.

Teach a man to sell fish, he eats Steak

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Excellent book on this topic is "Food - A culinary history from antiquity to the present" English edition by Albert Sonnenfeld published by Penguin books in 1999. Everything you always wanted to know about rotten fish sauce (garum) but didn't know where to look.

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