>  ML> One of the triumphs of marketing
> More of a triumph of lobbying!

Yes, well.

>  ML> The notion of subspecies is beyond me. It's like races or
>  ML> perhaps clans. They interbreed with viable and fertile results,
>  ML> they're the same species.
> Subspecies are two or more populations of a single species living in
> different areas and varying in physical appearance. They can

We knew all that! The necessity of the
concept is what is beyond me as in fact
is why anyone bothered to come up with the
term, except for the froward tendency of
people to make pointless distinctions.

> certainly interbreed but in general don't, due to geographic
> isolation and/or sexual selection by the perceived attractiveness of
> similarly appearing potential mates. Race/breed/variety/cultivar/

So in what way does that differ from the
Takagawa and Bergstrom situation?

> strain is an even lower measure of differentiation.

Lower, higher, what's the diff.

>  ML> Well, possibly. I'm fairly sure that the notion of
>  ML> subspecies was beyond everyone else back then, too.
> It's a term that has been used in scientific literature for a long
> time. I googled a dictionary site: it's first written appearance was
> in 1681.

My point: it was useless then and is 
useless now. Back then it was probably,
as such concepts are often in modern
times, pressed into service to further
various nefarious philosophies.

>  ML> I have known hunting people who swear that the vermin nosh on
>  ML> the crops until season opens and then hang around in the parks
>  ML> until it's over.  
> That seems to be true. Case in point: when bison were protected in
> the NWT they congregated on highway right of ways that had been
> cleared of trees to graze. They were not afraid of vehicles even if
> people stopped to take pictures. But when the population was high

Pretty amazing going through the bison
habitats on the AlCan a few years ago.
They just simply didn't care.

> enough to allow a limited hunt (by local Indigenous Aboriginal and
> Metis only, one animal each) several were shot from vehicles right
> in the ditch, The survivors headed into the bush and weren't seen
> again for years.

So who were the smarties who allowed them
to get plinked from the road?

> Dave talks about walking up to and clubbing non-migratory
> geese but I can assure you that if that became common practise the
> birds would either flee or attack. Wild migratory geese are
> difficult to hunt, very wary, with keen eyesight. The slightest
> movement, cough or wisp of cigarette smoke in a blind can spook an
> incoming flock from making a landing and they'll fly on to the next
> lake at great height.  

Which makes such a method of pest control
extra effective and worth pursuing.

>  ML> Pheasant, foie gras, and truffle sausage 
>  ML> 2 lb baked potato, roasted, peeled, riced and chilled
>  ML> 2 oz foie gras, seared, chilled, diced
> That sounds delicious but is that not a lot of potato in the
> mixture? When I make sausages I generally use 2%-3% by weight cereal
> binder up to 10% max ground rusks for bangers.

That is indeed a lot of potato, and it's what's
called for in the printed version of the recipe.
At that level it becomes a star player almost as
if were truffles. Perhaps, just perhaps, 1/2 lb
was meant? To my taste, nonfat filler in sausage
is at best dubious.

>       Title: Orange-Glazed Game Hens
>     3/4 c  Fresh orange juice

That might be good as well, but also too
carbohydratical.

> ... "American cheese is not cheese" is like saying meatloaf is not meat

Can one not say that American cheese is
not milk? Or that the asphalt highway
is not crude oil?

Nam Prik Pao - make same day
categories: Thai, adapted
yield: 1 batch

6 large garlic cloves
2 medium onions
1 Tb kapee or minced dried shrimp soaked in sherry
5 large dried hot peppers
2 Tb orange juice concentrate

Dry roast garlic and onion until skins are dark.
Peel and chop. Put kapee into aluminum foil and
dry fry packet for 2 min on each side; remove
from foil. Grind all ingredients together.

Michael Loo, Feb. 1995

Nam prik pao (roasted hot pepper sauce)
cat: Thai, sauce, hot
yields: 3/4 c

1 Tb kapee; shrimp paste; sub pounded dried shrimp
6 cl garlic
6 md shallots; substitute 2 sm onions
1 Tb brown sugar
1 ts tamarind concentrate
5 ts water
6 lg dried red chiles; chopped

Wrap kapee in aluminum foil, making a tight packet.

Dry-fry (i.e., no oil) garlic and shallots IN THEIR SKINS
with kapee packet in a very hot cast-iron pan, shaking
constantly, until skins are dark, crisp, and blistered.
Cool, peel, and chop the garlic and shallots.

Unwrap kapee packet.

Dissolve tamarind stuff in water.

Grind or process everything together to a thick paste.

Jennifer Brennan, adapted
posted 11-17-97
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