[Sca-cooks] food question

[johnna holloway]

I don't think that 10 generations is the rule.
At least in modern American cookery, you see
'traditional' used when no one can remember where
they saw the original recipe. I still cringe when
I pick up things like "traditional Amish" recipe
books and the first section contains a "taco salad."
Traditional recipes also get caught up in the oral
culture of cookery that is passed from grandmothers
to daughters to granddaughters where a written recipe
is never used and the ingredients are just ladled out.
If you have had to stand at someone's elbow and record
measurements as they explain the recipe, that's traditional.

Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis


vongraph wrote:>
>> Actually I am curious too, I thought a traditonal dish was something that
> had been served for at least ten generations?>
> Elric
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> From: "'bella" <ldybella at earthlink.net>
 That got me to wondering how long a dish has to
> > be cooked> > before It is called ''traditional' any ideas?
> > 'bella