Re: SF Cookbook?

In article <224l14d11is5ndvjlrslamfv9lkngr2oui@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Lawrence Watt-Evans  <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Thu, 1 May 2008 18:48:49 -0700 (PDT), DouhetSukd
><DouhetSukd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>From my cookbooks, I think that China, India also have highly
>>differentiated regional cuisines, but it has hard to judge from eating
>>out.
>
>Having visited China -- oh, yeah.  VERY regionally varied.

	The way it seems to work with Indians is that the way one's
mother cooks is the right way, each family does it slightly differently
[1]
and as a result all married men are convinced their wife is cooking things
incorrectly. No doubt the mothers-in-law are willing to offer advice.

1: There are also signficant regional differences, obviously.

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