Re: Recipes (was: Date and time on Cindu)

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>From: Patrick Littell <puchitao@...>
>
>You know, *that's* a genre that's severely underrepresented here: Recipes.
>
>Very old genre, almost as old as the endless lists of "3 oxen to the
>king of..." etc.  Granted, the earliest were more like chefs'
>aide-mémoire than detailed instructions -- they can be quite cryptic
>to the modern reader.  "Boil the water and prepare the pigeon in the
>usual way.  Then <something> the <unreadable>."
>
>But I digress.  Where are the recipes?  What do your, um, speakers eat?
Thagojians live on fish, sheep, goat, chicken, beef, bread, and a variety of vegetables.
I suspect their diet would be typical for the Levant, but I'm not entirely sure
what that entails, other than the list of Jewish/American delicacies.
Cous-cous? Hummus? Rice? Falafel? Eggplant? Tomato? Shwarma/Doner/Gyro?

The Br'ga, living on a tropical island, eat birds, lizards, turtle, fish,
cephalopods, maybe dolphin and/or porpoise, fruit, roots, tubers, probably
coconuts. Again, I'm not especially sure of their exact environs. I wonder
whether there's an edible jellyfish that would be plausible, and I'm thinking
about including at least some form of primate in their diet. I would not be
surprised (at this point) if sago entered their diet, but that's a vague hint
of an idea right now. Depending on exactly when and how I set them up, bread,
rice, sweet potatoes, breadfruit and potatoes might be plausible. I have no
idea whether there are any other land mammals that would be suitable.

The Tsa'in probably eat about the same stuff, living nearby.

It's probably best not to dwell too long on what the Lizardman species considers
food, but they make the Br'ga look like monovores.





Paul