[Prudence]

"Immaculate conception" refers to Mary being born free from the original sin normally passed from parent to off-spring as a result of the fall from grace in the Garden of Eden; it is not synonmous with "virgin birth."

Those funny english words like "knife" and "gnat"? They used to be pronounced like they're spelled. "What" and "where" used to be "hwaet" and "hwere."

People in the "middle ages" did not uses spices to disguise spoiled meat. 1) spices were enormously expensive. More so than buying fresh meat. 2) do you think that medieval people could eat spoiled meat and not get sick any more than you could?

I used to be intimately familiar with the Dewey sections for cookbooks, travel, and biology. (I used to shelve books.)

I have pre-1600 recipes for: french toast, pancakes, fried cheese sticks, and ravioli.