SC - Translation of Libro del arte de Cocina por Diego Granado,1599
Tollhase1@aol.com
Tollhase1 at aol.com
Thu Apr 6 12:07:09 PDT 2000
I agree with all of your missive, but this one part (that I copied below)
really strikes home. I, honestly, do NOT attend an event with the feast in
mind. I go for the activities or companions... BUT, having said that, if the
feast is bad or a disappointment (for whatever reason) it is what is
remembered about the whole event. Strange, uh?? If there is too much time
between courses, the dishes too cold (when they shouldn't be), if dishes
taste "funny", or the entertainment is annoying, whatever. It tends to be
summed up as "the feast sucked". When I hear something like that - I try to
get a little more elaboration on the whole thing. Sometimes whatever
produced the comment had nothing to do with the food at all or was definitely
a "personal interpretation." As in -- "the feast was terrible -- there were
nuts [or in one case, citrus) in everything." Ah, come on... Was there
"really" nuts in every SINGLE dish?
Rayne
In a message dated 4/6/00 12:19:21 PM Central Daylight Time, Aldyth at aol.com
writes:
<< ==========
Neither. I have an interesting "view" on feasts. In my not so humble
opinion :-)) I think that the feast is the most important part of the
event. Unless you have a vested interest in the days activities, you tend
to
remember what you had to eat. You don't want to be "remembered" as the
(insert feast person word here) who was responsible for something like
underdone chicken or insufficient portions.
>>
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