[Sca-cooks] Forbidden Foods

[Lilinah]

My favorite local non-commercial radio station aired on Sunday an 
episode of a radio program i enjoy (but don't always agree with), To 
The Best Of Our Knowledge. The episode was called "Forbidden Foods"

Among others, it included a segment with Andrew Zimmern, extolling 
odd foods. He seemed genuinely enthusiastic about getting to eat 
coconut grubs and such. However TTBOOK did play part of his show 
featuring khlii. Zimmern is not generally squeamish, based on little 
bits they played from other shows. But in this case, it really 
sounded disgusting. I wonder if perhaps his "hosts" served him some 
atypical version just to see his response.

I say this because IIRC i sent to this list several modern khlii 
recipes from actual modern Moroccans, or former Moroccans, and they 
were all fond of it and even made prepared at home, and said it was 
not stinky or revolting.

In case anyone wants to listen to the show, it can be found at
http://www.ttbook.org

Look for "Forbidden Foods - 48A" - or for "07-04-08-A". Hhmmm, just 
checked and it is right on the front page as of today, but in case 
someone wants to check it out in the future, you can search the 
archives for this show by name and number.

On a side note, TTBOOK has included interviews with Francine Segan, author of:
"The Philosopher's Kitchen: recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for 
the modern cook"
(in TTBOOK Program 04-08-08-A)
and
"Shakespeare's Kitchen: renaissance recipes for the contemporary cook"
(in TTBOOK Program 03-12-21-A)

Both books NOT to be relied on for re-creating either Ancient Greek 
and Roman food or food of Shakespeare's day. They are for the 
"modern" or "contemporary" cook and clearly "inspired by" rather than 
re-creations of historical food. The recipes may be delicious (i 
don't know, i haven't made any), but they're not historical.

-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita

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