[Sca-cooks] Meat and potatoes

[Ana Valdés]

Where in South America do you live, Susan? Could not be that the guest
thought the fish was not fresh to eat? Here in Uruguay we have wonderful
fish, we have Rio de la Plata and the Atlantic, but people is still
obsessed eating red meat.
I am back now after 34 years in Sweden and pay large amounts of money to
buy Chilean salmon.
Ana


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Patricia Dunham <chimene at ravensgard.org>wrote:

> Hmm, I got a slightly different impression, just as awful, or maybe
> worse...
>
> Susan said "a platter of fish". That sounds to me more like the serving
> dish, rather than the guest's personal plate. Frankly, I find the idea of
> throwing out food someone ELSE has cooked, at THEIR home, WITHOUT CHECKING
> FIRST!, even more inexplicably rude! I wonder if the gormless-guest thought
> she was helping clean up after the meal? As people will appropriately do,
> sometimes. BUT!
>
> I do hear that Americans are wretchedly wasteful of food. (not in this
> house! we don't buy what we don't eat, and we almost never buy more than we
> can cook, eat or freeze at any given time (well, occasionally fruit or veg
> languish in the frig' past edibility))
>
> Anyway, I wonder if this was a case of the "guest" deciding that since SHE
> didn't like it, nobody else would, so throw it away? Or perhaps "guest"
> herself never eats leftovers, so of course you throw it away (!) ...
>
> Like I said, the possibilities are almost even more horrible than simple
> dunder-head American self-centeredness!
>
> chimene
>
> On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Susan Lord Williams wrote:
>
> > Here in South America, the other night a guest from USA took a platter
> of fish (a 15th century recipe, which was excellent) to the kitchen and
> threw it out. When I discovered this I explained to her that although it
> was not to her liking my poor cleaning lady would loved it.
>
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