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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | If I married a Middle Eastern woman who served me Middle Eastern cuisine all the time, I'd run away from her and find something else to eat. Maybe I'd eat two days a week at home. |
OK, now try to imagine this same comment of yours uttered by a woman: "If I married a Middle Eastern man who served me Middle Eastern cuisine all the time, I'd run away from him (...)". I wonder how it would sound to most people. No, I don't wonder at all, I know it would sound strange, even if we changed the demonym.
In other words:
Knowing you as I do (I hope this doesn't sound too weird  ), your comment struck me as odd (well not at first, to be totally honest), since I'd expect you to say something more like "I'd do the cooking all the time or I'd try suggesting we share the cooking". Come to think of it, leave out the 'I'd try suggesting' bit -- it wouldn't sound like you at all !
| Michael wrote: | | French "tribe" |
Michael, did you mean 'French tripe' ? |
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| #18 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:43 am What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Conchita wrote: | | Jamie (K) wrote: | | Do you like those lamb stomachs stuffed with brains? |
It sounds a bit like the Scottish haggis! I've never heard of that dish in Lebanon (and don't think I would try it!), it mustn't be very popular there -- perhaps it's regional. But if that's your idea of Lebanese cuisine, no wonder you think you don't like it  ! |
I have never eaten the stuff, but I don't think I'd have a problem trying it someday. It's not the lamb stomachs stuffed with brains that bother me. It's hummous and tabouleh that nauseate me. I don't even like to be in the same room with them. I can't believe people take good vegetables and ruin them by making hummous and tabouleh out of them. Just terrible! |
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| #19 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:04 am What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Conchita wrote: | | Jamie (K) wrote: | | If I married a Middle Eastern woman who served me Middle Eastern cuisine all the time, I'd run away from her and find something else to eat. Maybe I'd eat two days a week at home. |
OK, now try to imagine this same comment of yours uttered by a woman: "If I married a Middle Eastern man who served me Middle Eastern cuisine all the time, I'd run away from him (...)". I wonder how it would sound to most people. No, I don't wonder at all, I know it would sound strange, even if we changed the demonym.
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Hi Conchita ..
but do you think that there is any Middle Eastern woman will accept him and agree him as a husband !!! 
... I'm not sure
anyway, I think some of people had refereed before they tried any kinds of food..... but most of them ( like you Conchita ) refereed and could relish and enjoy after they had tested the " real food " .......... 
Hey Jamie, I invite you to come to my country and I would you test some of our famous meals .. 
by the way .. If you invite me to your country , what kinds of meals will you offer me except " your REAL hamburger " ?
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| #20 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:54 am What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | I can't believe people take good vegetables and ruin them by making hummous and tabouleh out of them. Just terrible! |
Tabbouleh is one of my favourites! I can only hope you haven't tried the real stuff, because I fail to see how adding olive oil and lemon juice to fresh chopped vegetables can ruin them. Or maybe it's the burghul or parsley that deter you? As to hummous, I quite like it, though I prefer Baba Ghannoujh (or 'mtabbal' -- the French also call it aubergine caviar). Have you tried that? I don't know if it's the texture or the smokey flavour I like best, but I just love it.
Some of my other weaknesses are mloukhie, fattoush, mahnoush b'zaatar, falafel, khyaar b'lubban (cold yoghurt anc cucumber soup), baamieh (okra), mjuddra (lentil and rice pilaf) or kibbi. I could go on and on... The variety is incredible!
Just ask for any recipes |
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| #22 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:04 pm What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Hercules wrote: | but do you think that there is any Middle Eastern woman will accept him and agree him as a husband !!!
... I'm not sure |
Well, Hercules, my problem is that over the past four years or so ONLY women from the Middle East have been interested in me. I really dislike a lot of these women's habits -- especially the very rude way they push food on people again and again and again, even after the people have said no -- but this is who is interested in my company.
Conchita, you can be assured that I have had "the real stuff", and it's the real thing that I am so disgusted by. One of the problems for me is that so much Middle Eastern food is so heavy in raw onions and garlic that you can smell it across the room. I don't mind things like stuffed grape leaves, although I couldn't eat them every day, but a lot of the other dishes are really nauseating to me. As for the comment about running away from the Middle Eastern woman to find better food, are you really incapable of interpreting people's writing if they don't use smileys? Your comment on it sounds like it came from a teenage girl in the 1970s.
Hercules, if you came to my city, you'd probably find the local cuisine boring, because it's more or less German. It's very good, but nothing special. However, we have various types of local dishes from various parts of the country, such as a lot of New Orleans style dishes (including fried alligator), things from Texas, and various special types of pizza that don't exist in Italy.
By the way, when my niece was 7 years old, she asked me to draw her a storybook "about a kitty". I found the idea of a book about a kitty boring, so I pretended I thought she'd said "kibbee", and I created a story about the adventures of a plate of kibbee. She was angry and crying about it at first, but she nonetheless did her job of coloring in the pictures I drew, and in the end she thought the story was funny. Her teacher read it to the class. |
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| #23 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 16:29 pm What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Hercules wrote: | so I'll phone my mother to cook al-Shish Berak and al Sharhat and ...al-fattoush wowwww..  |
Herc, have you ever tried cooking yourself, for a change? Or maybe it's a matter of your mother not letting you into the kitchen at all !
| Jamie wrote: | | One of the problems for me is that so much Middle Eastern food is so heavy in raw onions and garlic that you can smell it across the room. |
Then, you'd have a bit of a problem if you lived in the Mediterranean area. I personally would find life terribly dull without onions and garlic! I enjoy not only the flavour, but the smell, both of which I find delicious and comforting. Bread and cheese and (raw) onion, for example, are something I simply can't resist!
| Jamie wrote: | | As for the comment about running away from the Middle Eastern woman to find better food, are you really incapable of interpreting people's writing if they don't use smileys? Your comment on it sounds like it came from a teenage girl in the 1970s. |
( , then pouting, then , then stamping my foot, then again, then almost going into a tantrum and then ).
I’ll take that as a compliment, Jamie, thank you very much (there comes an age when you can’t afford to be too choosy about certain things!). I was a teenage girl in the seventies, so that's me after all! If someone had told me that when I was twenty, though, I’d have been upset! |
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| #25 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 15:58 pm What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| FangFang wrote: | | Strangely, Now more and more chinesemen like to stay in the kitchen room. In their words "Making foods is a kind of art!" , and most of them enjoy it so much! Very Good! |
In the Spanish Basque Country (I’m not sure about the French one), they have men-only cooking clubs, also known as gastronomic societies. Women are gradually being allowed in some of them, yet only to sample the mouth-watering traditional Basque dishes ‘their’ men prepare.
By the way, if you ever go to San Sebastian, don’t miss the unique and fantastic gastronomic experience of ‘pintxos’, real masterpieces and the Basque equivalent of ‘tapas’. These are a wide selection of appetizers or tiny savoury dishes you are served in almost every bar in Spain, where (to start with) you are traditionally offered one with your drink. ‘Tapeo’ is almost a sport, certainly an art and definitely a pleasure here! |
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| #26 (permalink) Sat Jul 29, 2006 0:00 am What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Hercules wrote: | | First of all , our cuisine or all Arab cuisine depends on "AL-Halal food "or in the same meaning "the spotless meat " ....! |
Not all Arabs are Muslim, as you know, so not all Arabic cuisine is halal. Christian Arabs, for example, don't care if a lamb was slaughtered by a Muslim or not, as is required under halal rules, and there's nothing about having a Muslim slaughter an animal that makes its meat healthy or unhealthy.
Interestingly, since halal is basically the Muslim equivalent of Jewish kosher, in the United States Jewish and Muslim food stores are often stocked by many of the same suppliers. |
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| #27 (permalink) Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:22 am What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| Conchita wrote: | | By the way, if you ever go to San Sebastian, don’t miss the unique and fantastic gastronomic experience of ‘pintxos’, real masterpieces and the Basque equivalent of ‘tapas’. These are a wide selection of appetizers or tiny savoury dishes you are served in almost every bar in Spain, where (to start with) you are traditionally offered one with your drink. ‘Tapeo’ is almost a sport, certainly an art and definitely a pleasure here! |
Hi, Conchita, "pintxos" ," tapas" and "tapeo" sound like some special cooking names, right?? Here you say " these are a wide selection of apptizers or tiny savoury dishes you are served in almost every bar in Spain." That is really interesting , because few bars provide unique foods here except coffee , desserts or some snacks. Your bars sound like resteraunts . It is really a good idea of business. |
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| #28 (permalink) Sat Jul 29, 2006 15:41 pm What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| FangFang wrote: | | Hi, Conchita, "pintxos" ," tapas" and "tapeo" sound like some special cooking names, right?? Here you say " these are a wide selection of appetizers or tiny savoury dishes you are served in almost every bar in Spain." That is really interesting , because few bars provide unique foods here except coffee , desserts or some snacks. Your bars sound like restauraunts . It is really a good idea of business. |
You’ll be sorry you asked, FangFang . Food is a pet subject of mine and, once I get started on it, I can happily ramble on and on about it! But I’ll do my best to contain myself.
If there’s a business that always thrives in Spain, whatever the economic situation, it’s bars and caf?s. ‘Tapeo’ is going on a bar crawl (or going from bar to bar having drinks and ‘tapas’). Of course, you can stay in the same bar all the time, but it isn’t nearly as much fun. These places are also called ‘tascas’ or ‘mesones’ -- if you ever come to Madrid, you really should experience the cave-like mesones.
The terms ‘pintxos’ (‘pinchos’ in Spanish) or ‘tapas’ are used to mean nibbles, tiny snacks or titbits (their Middle Eastern counterparts are ‘mezze’). It’s not always finger food, though, since you often need a toothpick or a little fork to eat them. Tapas can be anything from a few olives, fresh marinated anchovies or Manchego cheese wedges to the typical potato omelette, fried squid or the so-called Russian salad.
As they say, if you can’t eat it with one hand while holding your glass of wine in the other, it’s not a ‘pincho’.
http://www.arrakis.es/%7Ejols/tapas/index2.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Tapas
http://www.hub-uk.com/interesting/spanish-tapas.htm
http://www.casabar.co.uk/news1.htm
For a good insight into food history, not only in Spain, but in the rest of Europe, you can visit the following link:
http://www.vub.ac.be/FOST/fost_in_english/links_europa_eng.htm |
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| #29 (permalink) Sat Jul 29, 2006 17:32 pm What cuisine do you prefer? |
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| FangFang wrote: | | Making foods is a kind of art |
you are right .. Fangfang
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