Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Equate Spain with food? I shared the thread with my Italian and Greek > dinner guest last night and we all had a good laugh. Can anyone recall > eating at a 'Spanish' restaurant in America?...jf kind of proves the point about lack of understanding of good food, in general, in the US...Steve > On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 09:12 AM, Don Dory wrote: > > > America has a cuisine? My mother in law lives in a tiny town in N. > > Carolina about 45 miles south of Ashville. Within a twenty mile radius > > you can find the normal Chinese, Italian, Mexican choices there is > > traditional French, tapa's, Vietnamese, and possibly more. These > > aren't > > chains, just small family run places that generally offer good value. > > Now, come on down to Atlanta and we can talk about cuisine! From the > > sixties where there was virtually no choice except possibly at the > > "club" to what is available now is quite amazing. > > > > Don > > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric > > Welch > > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 1:36 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: food (WAS: Nathan's PAW 45: Spanish hams) > > > > I didn't think so. > > > > And there is such a variety in the U.S. I don't see how anyone could > > claim they could know what American tastes are. To grow up in the > > Midwest and Northwest and then live in Southern California, I might as > > well have moved to another planet. Artichokes on pizza? Fish tacos? > > Sprouts? This is another planet! (A tasty one at that!) > > > > On Nov 8, 2003, at 10:13 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > > There is no such thing as a "European" attitude to food. > > > > Eric Welch > > Carlsbad, CA > > http://www.jphotog.com > > > > Never miss a good chance to shut up. - Will Rogers. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html