SC - Re: Period Feasts

[david friedman]

At 10:50 PM -0400 10/14/98, Philippa Alderton wrote:
>Cariadoc asks:
>
>>Suppose we were talking about modern ethnic food. Do you  think that by
>taking the best tasting dish from Chinese cuisine, and the best tasting
>Thai dish, and the best taking Japanese dish, and the best tasting Indian
>dish, you would produce a better dinner than if you chose four good dishes
>from one of those cuisines?<
>
>Actually, Cariadoc, I frequently do just that in my mundane life, being the
>all-American mutt I am.

I sometimes mix ethnic cuisines too--indeed, when we serve people a
medieval dinner at home, we sometimes have ice cream for desert--but the
reason is not that I think that gives me "better tasting dishes" than if I
stuck to one cuisine.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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