Re: SF Cookbook?

In article <bf0n141hpdd0u708j18nioer0d4c0a4k3n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 William George Ferguson <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Gosh, are you saying that Muslims, Hindus, ans Sikhs don't all eat the
same
> things?
> 
> In Lauri King's Mary Russell story "The Game", an Indian Raj hosts a
meal
> which he has deliberately designed to offend every one of his guests,
> Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Christian (Mary is in disguise, but he manages
by
> happenstance to offend her sensibilities as a Jew with the anti-Muslim
> dishes).

Even foods of the Hindus vary widely. I remember reading an article 
about a trade analysis of India that found it to be 5 nations. Consider 
the number of cuisines   in France or Germany and India has many more.

-- 
What is done in the heat of battle is (normatively) judged
by different standards than what is leisurely planned in
comfortable conference rooms.