h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

sauerkraut Stews stews and more stews... dumplings, potatos, 'noodles', 'pasta'.... a lot of it is all just variations of the same thing, given a differnt name and a slightly differnt ingredient list...

Potatoes, meat and gravy, and thank goodness for that, damn the Frenchies and their posey painting on a plate. No red blooded male would survive on their own without spuds and gravy. Sacred blue as the locals say.

The Germans actually have an equivalent to haggis. It's said to be former 'Kanzler' Helmut Kohl's favourite and is called 'Saumagen' ( = sow belly)

Basically you chop up everything you can find inside of a pig, sew it into a sow's belly and cook it well.

That's it.

Now look at this photograph of Herr Kohl:

http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-195909-panoV9free-hdhp.jpg

Remember the phrase "you are what you eat"?

In France it is illegal to name a pig 'Napoleon'. I wonder if the Germans have similar legislation?

"Remember the phrase "you are what you eat"? "

I eat robust but elegantly prepared peasant food. Anybody want my contact details?

"The word 'cilantro' is unknown in the UK and Ireland. It's always called coriander." [Gnomon]

But it's not unknown on the Internet, which has a global reach. It would be a good thing for people who write recipes to distinguish between the seeds and the leaves of the coriander plant, wouldn't it? If there's something I'm not getting, please explain it.

Also, Cilantro is the Spanish word for coriander. Much of the land area in the Americas is populated by people who speak Spanish, which may explain why the English-speaking people in the area adopted their terminology. In the future, I will take the nationality of the recipe-writer when trying to decipher whether they mean the leaves or the seeds.

Sounds like a good idea to me, paulh

[Amy P]