German-L & Indian food
AY...@nch08a.em.cdc.gov
I must confess I have no idea what your answer meant (get a proper newsfeed,
and read the de.* ??). That's ok, though. Thank you for taking the time to
reply to my question about GERMAN-L.
On the subject of Indian food and ginger/garlic/saffron:
I too am no expert in making Indian food, but by virtue of birth and marriage
(the latter to an avid cook of many cuisines not native to himself), I have
enjoyed a heck of a lot of it. I have to take issue with the person who
suggested that garlic is more important than ginger in Indian food. I feel
certain that ginger and those "c-spices" (e.g., cumin, cardomon, cloves,
coriander) are more key to the taste I think of as Indian. Ginger, I think,
also figures prominently in Indian sweets. I would like to try some of that
ginger paste sometime, but I'll have to do it on my own. My husband is a
purist who cringes at the idea of not roasting, grinding, and blending your
spices yourself. (Yes, his culinary "opuses" tend to take up a whole
weekend, but they're always worth the wait.) As for saffron, I was amazed
when I saw how much it cost, but it is at least 20 times cheaper in my
favorite Indian/Pakistani-owned grocery stores than it is in those "gourmet
delis," etc. You use such a teeny amount (one small thread) that a little
vial of threads can last more than a year. If you're NOT a big rice eater,
it could last the rest of your life. Are people using saffron a lot in
things other than rice?
--Anjani (ay...@nch08a.em.cdc.gov)
Rashmi
> and read the de.* ??).
I think Graham was referring to usenet newsgroups in German. I'm not
sure if many sites in the US get non-English groups (apart from the soc
groups). We don't, but then we don't get any of the bit.* groups either.
-rashmi
Graham Toal
That was why I said a 'proper' newsfeed :-) (We get *everything* here...)
G
Fizzy the Fribble
We only have 4300 news groups at the moment.