>>21384695
She is completely wrong about seasoning in Europe, spices and seasoning were for everyone during Classical Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times, the poor used easy to find native stuff like mustard, sage or rosemary and the rich used exotic stuff like black pepper, clove or ginger or very scarce stuff like regular salt.
Nobility loved to host banquets with food heavily seasoned and with lots of salt to flash how rich and prosperous they were to other nobles, thats where the "worth one's salt" idiom comes from.
I suppose she got the idea from the myth about poor people eating rotten fish with lemon to mask the stench and taste which is false, rotten fish stench is unmaskable and I dont even wanna imagine the taste, no matter how much lemons, spices or wathever you toss on it, hell most people would throw up at the smell of rotten fish since its a defense mechanism we have to protect ourselves from eating bacteria ridden spoilt food.
