[Sca-cooks] Ni Tsan's "Cloud Forest Hall Rules For Eating And Drinking"...

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Feb 8 09:58:14 PST 2007


Hullo, the list!

I acquired a need to scan Theresa Wang and Eugene Anderson's  
translation/edition of this as published in Petits Propos Culinaires  
#60. What I now have is a pretty nice, clear texty (IOW, not a .pdf  
of a scan that looks like a smudgy photocopy) .pdf after running it  
through OCR into MS Word and exporting it as a .pdf. I still have the  
MS Word document, but the latest update for MS Word for OS X appears  
to be either haunted and/or cursed, so after reformatting the entire  
20+ pages for the 79th time, I decided I should not suffer a witch to  
live (so to speak, and no, this is not about anybody's religious  
choices) and set it up as a .pdf, for which there are free viewers  
available, and which should still be text-selectable.

I'll be happy to send this .pdf out to anyone who wants a copy (one  
advantage of the .pdf is that the various citations, publisher's info  
that I have painstakingly included, and bibliography are pretty hard  
to remove, at last from the original document) is welcome. It's under  
300K in size.

Anybody who wants it, let me know, I'll set up an e-mail with an  
attachment, add names and addresses to it over the course of the day,  
and hit "send" later tonight.

Now, what I do _not_ have easy access to, and that I'm hoping someone  
else here does, is the relevant passages (I think in letters to the  
editor) from PPC #61, which are somebody's comments on this article,  
with a couple of corrections to the published translation.

If anybody had that and would be kind enough to fork it over, I'd be  
extremely grateful...

Thanks for your time, Collective Cooks! BTW, I really like the 16th  
Century Afterword to this text, which says, in part:

> After a
> hundred generations, the author’s nobility will be seen. Those who  
> like to cook will also straighten their clothes (as a mark of  
> respect).

(and in case anyone was wondering if you can cut and paste text from  
a pdf, there's your answer.)

Adamantius



"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04





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