[Sca-cooks] Re: Blown Sugar is Chinese Apparently
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Thu Oct 27 20:46:18 PDT 2005
Hmmm, I was of the impression that the Great Khan favored whatever he could
take from his enemies. Savored to the lamentations of their women.
Bear
> Well, given the size and remoteness of some of the lands the Mongols
> travelled through, what makes you think they weren't, even if someone had
> a lot of sugar 1000 or more miles away? From my rather limited research
> into things Mongol, I get the impression Temujin probably preferred a
> nice glass of mead, himself. But as I say, Asia's a big place, and
> without things like railroads, one cannot assume that commodities readily
> available on a sub-tropical coastline are necessarily easy to come by on
> the steppes.
>
> Adamantius
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