[Sca-cooks] Zakuskas

[Stefan li Rous]

Huette said:
  <<< However, I have just been reading about "mezze" and one expert,  
Ayla Algar,
feels that there is some evidence to an ancient Persian origin for  
mezze.
If I were trying to substantiate that there was a older form of  
zakuski before
Peter the Great, I would think that to connect mezze to Russia would  
be a better
route to go.  But that is just my opinion. >>>

So, what is a "mezze" and what makes it unique, and different from a  
"zakuska"?

<<< I understand the problems of trying to research pre-1600  
practices in a culture
that didn't document its practices in writing often.  >>>

I think there might just be a bunch of material out there that hasn't  
been translated or even studied. Under the USSR, a lot of stuff  
wasn't allowed to be studied or be printed because it didn't fit in  
with the party line. Sort of what we have been seeing more and more  
in the last seven years or so.

For example:
Birch-Brk-Wrt-art (10K)  3/ 2/02    "Old Novgorod Birch-Bark Writings"
                                        by Posadnik.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/CULTURES/Birch-Brk-Wrt-art.html

<<< I have to admit that I have a knee-jerk reaction to hearing about  
zakuskas as
several people here in Caid have tried to introduce it, with the  
explanation of
"Well it is hundreds of years old.  It just had to have been done  
prior to 1600."
With no further research done.  In my humble opinion, they just  
wanted an
excuse to drink vodka... >>>

Lousy excuse. There is easier proof that vodka was made prior to 1600  
CE.
Vodka-art          (5K)  9/15/02    "Vodka-The Little Water of Life"  
by Marijah.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/BEVERAGES/Vodka-art.html

Stefan
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