[Sca-cooks] Cooking with Bonzer- or, Adventures in Modern Cooking

[Philip & Susan Troy]

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>In a message dated 2/8/2002 10:46:40 PM Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
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>>  Hmmm. Martha is Polish-American and Vlad Tepes was Wallachian. (So,
>>  BTW, was Marx Rumpolt, I gather.) Do either of those groups qualify
>>  as Slavic? Offhand, I don't know.
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>Polish is Slavic.  Wallacian is one of the groups, along with Moldavian, that
>became modern Romanian.  If you are being technical, linguistically it is
>part of the Romance languages group.

When am I not technical? ;-) As it happens, I did look it up before
going to bed last night, but I had already shut down the Infernal
Machine for the night. Yes, folks, Poles are Slavs, Wallachians are
not. Interestingly enough, in spite of the proclivities, real or
imagined, of the World's Most Famous Wallachian, Wallachia and
Transylvania are apparently two completely separate regions.

Adamantius

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