[Sca-cooks] A Quote for Anahita

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>This seemed timely given the discussion about Thanksgiving dinners past and
>future here recently.
>Christianna
>
>  QUOTE
>================================================================
>"The cold truth is that family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of
>nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied
>by psychosomatic jitters."
>
>M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992)

Fine as far as it goes, but she left out the distress that succeeds 
the dinner for a couple weeks, due, for the most part, to the bad 
behavior of family members. I know i'm no angel - i bite my tongue a 
lot at these dinners, but i still rise to the bait, firmly plant my 
foot in it, occasionally (did i use enough cliches and mix enough 
metaphors?)

...still collecting Winter Holiday recipes ancient and modern for 2006...

Anahita

P.S.
Does anyone know about how to deal with elder-care 
legal-medical-financial issues in California, especially if the 
person in question doesn't want to deal with them? I know this is OT 
for this list, but certain things that happened during my recent 
visit have me more concerned than before. Write to me *off-list*

OBFood: After exhausting de Nola, i'm now tracking down recipes from 
Diego Granado to use for the Vigil "banquet" side board. I'm finding 
them here and there on the web, all seem to have been translated by 
Brighid ni Chiarain. I've found Lady Brighid's site, but only a few 
are there. So i'm wondering, is there some place they're all gathered 
together? (not necessarily the whole book, just all the translated 
recipes).