SC - Meat jellies

[harper@idt.net]

Jadwiga wrote:
>
>Ras--  are you sure about this? _6000 years of bread_ makes the opposite
>claim, at least for southern Europe: that corn (not green corn, but dried
>field corn) got integrated into southern European diet fairly quickly, but
>then dietary problems started to crop up, and it was mostly abandoned
>except for certain applications... I believe maybe polenta was one of
>them.


This is quite true for some parts of Europe, although Ras´ statement would
be correct for Northern and Western Europe. Maize was very popular in many
regions of the Balkans, for instance, and in Northern Italy (polenta). I´ve
seen it called "the bedrock of the Romanian diet" and most Romanian
cookbooks I´ve seen place great emphasis on mamalinga and other types of
maize porridge/polenta type dishes. The same goes for Northern Bulgaria, for
instance. Maize was also much used in parts of Spain and Portugal. (In
Iceland, however, maize     was strictly for the cows and our beloved
sheep.)

Nanna