[Sca-cooks] Re: Ethnic question was OOP: Uzbeki Cuisine

[johnna holloway]

Anahita seems to have posed an interesting set of questions
for the weekend. Anyone care to respond....

Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> When dealing with non-European cuisines, how valid do folks think it
> is to compare Medieval recipes with modern "ethnic" ones, in order to
> clarify them? Or should we re-creational cooks completely ignore the
> modern corpus, as similar as some dishes may seem, and just fly
> blind, ignoring what people in the same geographic locations do today?
> > Anahita