[Sca-cooks] Mongolian BBQ

[Olwen the Odd]

>The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery that
>was held in 1988 was on "The Cooking Pot."
>Anne and Gerald Nicholls article "The Cooking
>Pot in China" appears on pages 109-122.
>They discuss Mongolian Firepots and date them
>to the 19th or even 20th centuries. The wok is
>dated to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).
>
>Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis

Really?  I'm surprized the firepot would be so recent considering how
contained they are as a unit and how little fuel is actually needed to
sustain heat enough to cook with.  I have one and am always surprized at how
cleverly engineered it is.
Olwen

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