[Sca-cooks] Encyclopedia of Exotic foods (was Adadina whichshould have been Adafina)

[vicki shaw]

In case you are confused, Vicki is my best friend.  So I was not speaking of
myself in the third person.

My Moroccan granny used to make a jam with whole baby eggplants.  I used to
love pulling them out of the thick sweet sticky syrup they were imprisoned
in.  I still dream of biting into one of those.  I used to have to bribe
granny's maid to let me into the locked pantry and steal an eggplant out of
the jar.

Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
Barony Beyond the Mountain
East Kingdom
vhsjvs at gis.net

www.omygoddess.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: "vicki shaw" <vhsjvs at gis.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Encyclopedia of Exotic foods (was Adadina
whichshould have been Adafina)


> Why thank you Johnna!  I shall tell Vicki what you said and she will say
see
> I told you you should have done way back when I first told you to (ten
years
> ago)!
>
> Angharad
>
> > Actually the guides already do exist---
> > Check out
> > Bruce Cost. Asian Ingredients.
> > Eve Zibart. The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion.
> > Linda Bladholm. Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified.
> > Linda Bladholm. The Asian Grocery Store Demystified.
> > Linda Bladholm. The Indian Grocery Store Demystified.
> > There are many more---
> > Then there are the produce guides like
> > The Great Exotic Fruit Book.
> > The major problem is combining all the information and the pictures into
> > a format that can still be transported in a purse or pocket. One can't
lug
> > The Oxford Companion to the market.... although I have taken Alan
> Davidson's
> > seafood books with me at times.
> >
> > Johnnae llyn Lewis
> >
> >
> >
> > vicki shaw wrote:
> >
> > >A friend who loves my eclectic cooking but found herslef totally lost
> when I
> > >took her to my favorite indo-pakistani shop, kept pointing to one thing
> > >after another asking what is this, how do you use it, how would I know,
> etc
> > >etc etc.  snipped  She said I should write a book on
> > >all the exotic herbs, powders, spices, condiments, bottled and jarred
> items,
> > >vegetables, fruits, meats, fishes, etc etc, from Indo to Pakistani to
> > >Laotian, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese stores.
> > >It's actually not a bad idea if such a guide does not already exist.
> Anyone
> > >itching to author an encyclopedia?  Call it Guidebook to Shopping in
> Ethnic
> > >Food Stores.
> > >Angharad
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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