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

staving Patrick Littell:
>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?
Interestingly, the oldest known English recipe book is called "A Form of
Curry". It dates from the 14th Century. The word "Curry" is therefore
attested in English five hundred years before the Raj.

Pete