Fw: [Sca-cooks] Comments please?

[Phlip]

I asked Paul Buell about the quote you provided, and he responded with some
asperity:

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> (Expletive deleted)....Thin doughs used for this purpose, to my knowledge,
are
> Central Asian as is baklava, which is from a Turkicized Mongolian word.
The
> Greeks certainly did not have it in 300 BC. This statement is based upon a
> misunderstanding of Athenaeus, probably an intentional one. Circa 1600 is
> way too early for baklava in the West, the Turkish variety that we know
> today was only in the process of development. It was the Osmanli who
> popularized and its rise as a popular food is to be connected with the
rise
> of the coffee house. Buell



Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....