The significance of kitchens for Ancient Egyptians

The Daily Star (Egypt) ^ | 6/2/07 | Ahmed Maged

[Renfield]

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/imageview.aspx?ID=5566&ImageWidth=200

[Renfield]

I really wish FR would use the same VBR code-enabling features that other bulletin boards do. It would make things SO much easier.

[Calpernia]

GGG

[Renfield]

Ancient eats ping.

[Calpernia]

Those forums are easier to hack though.

[Calpernia]

Here:

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/imageview.aspx?ID=5566&ImageWidth=200

[BipolarBob]

Eat Like an Egyptian ping.

[Renfield]

[BipolarBob]

I am having trouble deciphering some of that link.

[Calpernia]

I didn’t even look at the link. I just hypertexted it for Renfield.

[CholeraJoe]

Egyptian kimchee. Who would have thought?

[BipolarBob]

I understand that. I wasn’t blaming anyone but myself for failing to comprehend all of the meaning of the characters in the text.

[Calpernia]

Ha ha, what’s the matter, you don’t speak ASCII??

[Calpernia]

Oh, I see, that wasn’t an article; he was trying to post and image.

You are looking at code that makes a picture.

[Calpernia]

I just looked at post 8. That is the image. The I posted is for that. I assumed it was a text link.

[Red Badger]

... most interesting of these habits is the production of “fesiekh” (rotten fish). “I would like to note, however, that the Ancient Egyptian technique of preparing ‘fesiekh’ is by far more advanced than ours.”

SO THAT'S WHERE LUTEFISK CAME FROM!!!!!!!!

[Renfield]

I think lutefisk probably came about when some Viking woman accidentally dropped a platter of fish into a vat she was using to make lye for soap (asssuming Vikings used soap).

Lutefisk is pretty hard to explain. We really have to reach “outside the box” for such things.

[Red Badger]

An ancient Viking went for a trip to Egypt and got the recipe, but since it was in Egyptian, something was lost in the translation!...........

[Renfield]

Wikipedia claims that the first written record of Lutefisk comes from a King of Norway in the mid-16th century. Nordic folklore has it that Lutefisk came about when, in Ireland, St. Patrick ordered his retainers to pour lye over the dried fish on a Viking longboat, with the aim of poisoning the Vikings; but that the vikings, after soaking their alkaline fish in water and cooking it, pronounced it delicious.

You just can’t find any way to mess with people tough enough to cross the North Sea routinely in shallow-draft open boats.

[-YYZ-]

Kimchee, at its most basic, is pretty much the same thing as sauerkraut - naturally fermented pickled cabbage. Other ingredients, such as garlic, hot red pepper, and fish sauce, are optional and vary from region to region and maker to maker in Korea.

The local Japanese-Korean restaurant I go to serves a kimchee that I really like - very spicy. It is a bit of an acquired taste, though, to be sure.