From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Relish the cross-cultural cuisine
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
<In fact many people think that Goan cuisine has to do mostly with the
non-vegetarian. However I soon found out that it's not true. Maria explained
a little known FACT that before the Portuguese occupation of nearly four and
half centuries, most Goans were vegetarian.>
Ah! the Times of India, the home of the BOGUS Goa-Alcohol study. (mercifully
modified before publication elsewhere)
I wonder where one goes to verify this above mentioned FACT
Is fish vegetarian ?
BTW: in this "majority of Goans" did "Maria" include the native Goans eg
Kunbis ani Gaudis? Did the Saraswats start eating fish after being "forced
by the Portuguese". Did the 'New Conquests' develop their famous fish
cuisine only after the Portuguese?
Where does one go for this FACT?
I could understand this situation when Goa was under the Buddhists. Wonder
what happened to them. Did the Portuguese wipe them out too?
It would be good to know
Gabe, it would also have been nice to have the name of the author.
jc
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