My 2 bits to this is...
a. Yes, the joke went on and on and was nice,now... back to planet earth...tastes are indeed very subjective.
b. In every field, arts or cuisine or language, there are the "purists" and the "experimenters". The purists want to keep the status quo and the experimenters want change. I personally think that everything evolves continously (else we would still be eating leaves and fruit and raw meat) so there will continue to be experimentation, some of which will fall by the wayside, and some of which will result in new forms and combinations. Eg. the purists who yell about playing Carnatic music on the keyboard forget how the violin was incorporated into the concert scenario very recently (and was probably done amidst similar hullaballoo.)
On 6/15/06, Deepak Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To each his/her own but if one wants to experience some different culture/cuisine why not experience it in totality instead of disgusing it or making it resemble something else altogether.
COming back to my earlier example of French Cusine which started this sub-thread: Instead of adding tobasco to French food in a gourmet resteraunt , why not go for Italian or Amercian food ? is a bit like going to an Indian resteraunt and asking for tandoori chicken without tandoori masala
Deepak
On 6/15/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On 14/06/06, Udhay Shankar N < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 05:54 PM 6/14/2006 ]
>
> >As an example, I know one subscriber of silklist who's partial to
> >pooris & ice cream. Yechh.
>
> It is not clear to me just how different this is from eating pooris
> and sweetened mango pulp, which a significant portion of the country
> apparently does.
My point exactly. Before I got sidetracked by a long running private
joke, I was trying to point out that blanket statements about French
(or any other) cuisine are pretty meaningless.
Food preferences are extremely subjective.
-- b
