On 19 Dec 2002 at 20:46, Laurie Campbell wrote:

> Don't even know who Julia Child is?

Very vaguely... cookbook writer, yes?  If I had to shoot her at a 
party my handler would have to point her out.

> Good with garlic butter

Nah.  Fish or shrimp for this kid....  


> Um - er - you don't?  Why not? Should be between the pork section and
> the poultry section in the supermarket

Not around here; I don't know that I've ever seen rabbit in the 
Houston groceries.  Must admit I've never looked for it, either.  If 
they had it it'd be a "specialty" item and cost at least six or ten 
bucks a pound, which is so far out of my league it's not funny.


> Can't imagine that it would be much of a staple in the Andes - too far
> from the sea.

Actually, first time I tried it was in Guayaquil... Pacific Coast 
port city, home to about half of Ecuador's commercial fishing fleet 
(both boats! ) and a first-world city in its own right.  

This was about halfway to a state dinner... we were the Governor's 
Guests. The chef was supposed to be from Paris, some famous school or 
other... So I ate the rubber squid and the pasty yucca, and drank the 
wine  and listened to mine host and 
the guy who was the nominal leader of our little band talk past each 
other since neither one spoke the other's language and neither one 
knew it, and I could understand BOTH.  I got through without 
dissolving into giggles though our official liaison and I got wildly 
tuned on some local firewater  and laughed our asses off 
about it later that evening.

The next morning I positively destroyed the breakfast bar.  Fresh 
pineapple, local oranges, bananas, wonderful ham, fresh eggs with a 
local white cheese, and the best croissants I've ever had.  (and of 
course God's Own Coffee.)  When I move I'll have to watch out for the 
panaderias (local-style bakeries); they're dangerous.  More than made 
up for the vulcanized dinner plate.


> Laurie give me variety every time Phoenix
 

Me, I'm a peasant and happy with it. Beans and rice and tortillas 
will do me just fine; when I get bored with that I throw a cow over a 
fire and start carving off chunks. 


               Albest,

                        Clayton

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