Posted by Jeff from d53-237-236.try.wideopenwest.com (64.53.236.237) on Saturday, February 08, 2003 at 11:09AM :
In Reply to: No, no joke intended posted by andreas from dtm2-t9-1.mcbone.net (62.104.210.98) on Friday, February 07, 2003 at 5:26PM :
: +++ No, no joke intended.
: If there was ever any irony intended then only for these reasons:
: A few days ago we/my family had just invited our Aramean friends who brought a sampler of old recipes hand-written in Syriac – joy of joys ! - but in a mixture of Western and Eastern dialects - sigh.
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Andreas,
Would you be able to copy or scan that manuscript and email or send it to me?
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: +++ So while we men were breeding on the higher secrets of decipherment, terminology and grammar – the Ladies simply took fun in preparing the meal out of a mixture of tradition, hearsay, happy guess plus a little inspiration altogether with a never missing sense for culinarian accidents (they giggled so long that the traditional Assyrian/Persian bottom crust burnt way too much upwards).
: +++ Jeff, just because it’s only a manuscript I can’t send you this very "book" we use for now, but I know of some other ones – published by the Aramean organisations here in Germany which BTW are so much hated by the Assyrians (even if often being of the same family!)
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I would appreciate any info. that you have.
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: In case of interest I’ll send you the relevant bibliographic data.
: +++ A final thought:
: So, you “weigh so much“ ?
: Come over here to Germany & you'll be the my special guest student in my martial arts school.
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I'd say I'm not too big, I was just exaggerating. There is one truth that I will not deny -- I love to eat... "our food" especially.
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: That will surely bring down your weight in the shortest of times & and will more surely refresh your mind.
: That unfortunately not being possible for now, I’d suggest the following:
: Ask your Assyrian med docs for developing a dieting booklet especially for Assyr/Chald/Syriacs/Arameans (….)
: a) focussing on the special physiological-mental needs of your people (as far as not corrupted by US food and drugs
: and therefore
: b) mainly based on the true traditional wisdom (!) of your people but never leaning on the basically only materialistic-oriented and fake folklore of Assyr/Chald/Aram/Syr nationalists aping the Western stuff.
: Jeff,
: I hope that wasn’t too much of an irritation for you.
: beSheyna
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Thanks for the info. Hopefully you can find a way to take a digital picture or scan of those manuscripts and maybe furnish the names of the other cookbooks aforementioned.
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-- Jeff
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