[Sca-cooks] Silk Road timeframe, take 3

[Huette von Ahrens]

The Silk Road theme is very popular here in Caid.  I have done two and know of 
two others.  In menu planning for this theme, you don't really need to know
about the seasons so much. The most recent one that I did, which was last year,
I geared the various courses around various festivals in the areas.  Since
the event was in September, harvest festivals were easy to do. Several of them had
very specific foods associated with the harvest festival.  All the others
were from Europe to China.  Mine was from China to Europe.

Don't fret about seasons.  Write your own story.  Your explorer Parko Molo got
a late start from Venice and didn't leave until winter.  He arrives in Baghdad
in the summer when it is hot.  He gets snow delayed in the Himalayas and doesn't
arrive into India until spring.  Rain again delays him in India and he doesn't arrive
in the court of Kubli Kahn in Beijing until fall.  So in my made up story, every
season has been covered.  Use your imagination.  No real explorer has the
same time frame in their travels.  Unless you wish to use a real explorer like
Marco Polo, then do your own research and read his biography and follow when he
arrived in the various places.  

Huette



--- "morgana.abbey at juno.com" <morgana.abbey at juno.com> wrote:

> NO NO NO
> 
> I did not ask about the geopolitical history of Asia Minor.  I don't care if it took so many
> years that your grandchildren finished the trip.  I'm trying to put together a menu, not write a
> thesis.
> 
> What season was it when you got your ass kicked out of Constantinople?
> 
> What season was it when you staggered into Samarkand?
> 
> What season was it when you reached Beijing?  
> 
> Notice that how many years this covers is not relevant.
> 
> Now if I seem cranky it's because I'm feeling very marginalzed by this answer everything except
> my question.  (Maybe I should have someone with titles ask all my questions.)
> 
> Now I just want popcorn and sarcastic TV.
> 
> Morgana
> 
> 
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