On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:53 -0500, Dave Smith
> shouted from the highest
rooftop:

>James Silverton wrote:
>> Victor wrote on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:54:33 +0100:
>>
>>> By ARIEL DAVID
>>
>>> Associated Press
>>
>>> ROME (AP) - If you are craving a kebab, tandoori chicken or
>>> Peking duck you may go hungry in the small Tuscan city of
>>> Lucca, which has just barred new ethnic restaurants from
>>> opening in its historic medieval center.
>>
>> It's a well-worn attempt to stave off evolution by legislation. It's
>> never worked but they keep on trying. Perhaps they should prescribe
>> genuine medieval food....Good Luck!
>>
>
>
>Tomatoes, potatoes and pepper came from the New World, so the basics of
>a lot of Italian cooking would have been unknown until the 16th century.
>Pasta is another import. Italian food would be entirely different had it
>not been for outside influences.

And many of the spices used in their cooking were also introduced. So
what?

I think most people would accept that the use of ingredients that goes
back several hundred years can be considered traditional by now ...
and that the people of Lucca are in a far better position than posters
on rfc to judge what THEY consider to be traditional & desirable as
opposed to what THEY consider to be "ethnic" and not desirable.

It is, after all, their community.


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una cerveza mas por favor ...

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