[Sca-cooks] Re: Blown Sugar is Chinese Apparently

[Terry Decker]

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