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

[Elaine Koogler]

I have the comments by Francoise Sabban that came out in the next
issue...I'm seriously "under the gun" right now until I get through my feast
next week...can you wait until then?

Kiri

On 2/8/07, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
wrote:
>
> 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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