"Bruce" wrote in message ...

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:33:50 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Bruce" wrote in message
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>On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:44:43 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
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>>On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 12:14:25 PM UTC-5, Fruitiest of Fruitcakes
>>wrote:
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>>> I dont think Anglo Saxon cuisine was that bad.
>>>
>>> Remember that wild animals would have tasted much stronger than the
>>> bland
>>> meat such as chicken we endure today.
>>>
>>> Ive no idea what Pike tastes like, or Eels and Perch for that matter,
>>> but
>>> they couldnt have been too bad or their bones would not have been found
>>> in
>>> piles around known settlements.
>>>
>>> Ok, so they didnt have sugar; but they had honey to sweeten things,
>>> plus
>>> a
>>> multitude of edible berries at different times of year.
>>>
>>> Just because there is a national myth that our ancestors lived on
>>> turnips
>>> doesnt mean we have to believe that as well.
>>>
>>> Wild garlic would have been plentiful in the hedgerows if they wished to
>>> add
>>> it to the cooking pot.
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>>I'm pretty sure when people talk about "Anglo-Saxon" cooking, they mean
>>English cooking of the 19th and 20th Century.
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>Yes. In the Netherlands, things slowly started to improve in the late
>60s, with the French and Italian influence. Chinese too, but not so
>much for home cooking. Indonesian cuisine had always been a factor.
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>Pretty much here too, although curries were popular back in the day.
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>I got hooked on Italian cooking very early on and I loved it)

I guess what Indian food was for the UK, Indonesian was for the
Netherlands.

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I expect so. Curries never did it for me What kind of food was
Indonesian?