SC - marocco food

[ana l. valdes]

As I wrote, the recipe was taken from Conrans book and I assumed it
could be "reasonable period", what it means, the tajine itself is a very
old kind of cooking ware, used by nomadic people since Antiquity, duck
and chicken and wild ands were hunted by falcons under Saladinos time
and before. 
Honey and raisins and dates and saffran are very typical regional food
in the Middle East and Africa. Sweet potatoes are very similar to yams,
maybe in the "original recipe", (if it was some), the vegetable was yams
(originally from Africa and not from South America) and Conran now
wanted to make the dish easier. (Sweet potatoes or yams are very
similar, but I dont have any idea what is easier to get, sweet potatoes
or yams).
By the way, the most of todays geographs share the hypothesis America
and Africa was once the same continent and the "jointure" is from Souh
America to South Africa.
If we follow this kind of reasoning its not strange find vegetables and
animals related in the both continents. It was not a New World, it was
in fact a very old one, Uruguay, my own homecountry, rest over one of
the oldest rocks existent, from the First Pleistocene, the "original
rock", one of the oldest and more stables rockfoundation.
Never had a earthquake, never the less trembling of the earth.
I mean, this "Old World" was named "New World" by very etnhocentric
european scientists, it was new for them, but it not means the continent
was new in itself.
Funny, how all these ethnocentrics thinkings and judgements are still
going strong... 
Ana

Stefan li Rous skrev:
> 
> Ana commented:
> > Its really not a primary source, but it seemed reasonable period. I
> > found it in Cafe Marocco, by Terence Conran, in his new serie, Cafe
> > Morocco, cafe Vietnam, cafe Brasil.
> > The recipe in the book was a chicken tajine, but I add the duckbreast
> > since I had a fresh one.
> 
> Period, maybe. Medieval, no. I believe we determined earlier on this
> list that sweet potatoes were New World. But yams were African. So
> I guess if you were considering sweet potatoes a close replacement
> for yams, it could be period. I don't eat sweet potatoes or yams, so
> I can't say how close they are in taste or texture.
> 
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