SC - Mackerel

[Elaine Koogler]

If you succeed, PLEASE, PLEASE share what you get!

Kiri

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Another thing to consider is the fact that some of the immigrant Asians
> we encounter here in the USA can tend to have a different view of
> history. For some, it is not a subsistence issue and therefore interest
> in it is kind of a whimsical thing. For example, the lady that was
> recently mentioned as having gotten a recipe from her great-grandmother,
> who got it from hers, etc., therefore the recipe would have to have been
> over 500 years old. To some people, there's no problem with the logic of
> this, and in many social situations there's no need to be any more
> logical or specific than that. Then again, there's my mother-in-law,
> whom I've asked on occasion to help me find Chinese recipes from prior
> to the Ming Dynasty (since my wife isn't fully literate in written
> Chinese), and her response has always been, "Why, for heaven's sake,
> would you want to know about that? This is the 20th century and those
> people are all dead."
>
> Heaven forfend, though, that one of her children or grandchildren should
> fail a history test in school... ;  )
>
> Adamantius, still trying
>
> lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> > Morgana wrote:
> > >I am a bit
> > >curious why you think there aren't period sources for these cuisines.
> >
> > I think what people mean, and they've said this explicitly before, is
> > that there aren't sources available that we can read *easily*, not
> > that resources don't exist.
> >
> > If you don't already know that sources exist, it's often hard to
> > track them down when their titles in library catalogs are often just
> > Romanizations of the foreign languages in question - i'm sure this is
> > true also for Middle Eastern and Indian cuisines.
> >
> > We are more likely to be familiar with European languages than Asian
> > languages. Besides speaking and reading French, and being able to
> > make my way through a number of other written European languages with
> > dictionaries, i can speak Indonesian, and read it, but only in the
> > Roman alphabet - i can't read Javanese or Balinese or Batak written
> > in various writing systems derived from Sanskrit.
> >
> > I suspect that on this list, there's a high number of people who can
> > at the very least read one or two languages other than their birth
> > language - and we have quite a few here whose native language is not
> > English. We are blessed by their presence. But i suspect non-European
> > languages, especially those that do not use the Roman alphabet, are a
> > bit less well represented.
> >
> > Anahita al-shazhiyya
> > who will be taking classes on reading and speaking Arabic
> > at our Kingdom Collegium in a bit over a week...
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> Phil & Susan Troy
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