[Sca-cooks] Was Seeking bread recipe now Sir Richard F. Burton

[Elaine Koogler]

Terry Decker wrote:

>I wouldn't consider Sir Richard F. Burton just a Brit.  Soldier, adventurer,
>explorer, diplomat, liguist, rogue and genius all fit as well.  He was very
>much a Victorian gentleman and leagues beyond most of the breed in
>understanding and appreciating foreign cultures.  Besides the Kama Sutra, he
>also translated the Ananga Ranga, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night
>(The 1001 Arabian Nights), The Perfumed Garden, and The Scented Garden (all
>copies of which were burned by his wife after Burton's death).
>
>Bear
>  
>
I didn't mean to imply that he was "just a Brit"....he was all that you 
state, and was, in truth somewhat a maverick in his own culture.  I 
actually meant to impugn the Colonial troops and the missionary types 
who went into not only India, but other countries and systematically 
destroyed anything that they considered immoral. 

Kiri