SC -Asian cuisine

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

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...