[Sca-cooks] Middle Eastern Food

[Deborah Hammons]

I am so enthused!!  From a left handed sort of way.  Our group is hosting a
cooking collegium in April, and the overwhelming choice was middle eastern
food.  For the past week the challenge has been narrowing the field of
study.  Most of the cooks who have volunteered favor Turkish, or Mughal
Indian.  It looks like the entertainment will be in the form of a Hafla.
 The most entertaining suggestion came from a service person back from Iraq,
who suggested roast lamb on a gold platter, with couscous.

What I had been hoping for was a kitchen venue to make the meal, and teach.
 Soft cheese, flatbreads, etc.

If you would, keep the suggestions coming, and I will forward them on.  I
get to coordinate the classes, and will probably teach the flatbread class.

Aldyth

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Gretchen Beck <grm at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> --On Friday, January 15, 2010 2:32 PM -0800 Raphaella DiContini
> <raphaellad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> I prefer single sources or very tight source groups in
> >> general.
> >> -- Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
> >
> > I agree with this in that I generally like to go from one source if at
> > all possible. I don't like the idea of referring to multiple sources that
> > may be all over the place in time and cultural relivance. But that's just
> > my preference.
> >
>
> I'm also for single source as much as possible -- while this may narrow the
> available dishes, it will almost always provide a consistency of palette
> and presentation that makes for not only good education but
>
> (dah dah dah dah dah dah dah)
>
> good eats.
>
> ;-)
>
> toodles, margaret
>
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