Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome back Kit. As to your comments, I think that the U.S. is moving back toward what you are talking about. Whole Foods is spreading very rapidly to the point that the stock pickers are noticing. In the part of the world that I inhabit there are many "fruit" stands where local produce is available. Boulder is not unique in having enough people who value fresh not processed food. When you visit your family I am sure you are familiar with the Dekalb Farmers market in Decatur. This is an example of a store where you can sample the world's tastes with the food that is available in the home country. Houston has the same with "Fiesta" stores that extend throughout swamp country in Texas. It really comes down to choice. You can appreciate what a Leica does or shoot with something "whitebread". Likewise, you can cook something fresh or you can slurp it up at the local McWhopendy's. For myself, I have a pot of black beans and ham hocks simmering now with the cornbread set to go in at 5:00. Mmmmm. 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 Kit McChesney Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 12:05 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: food (WAS: Nathan's PAW 45: Spanish hams) Actually, there are some good Spanish restaurants in the U.S. We have one in Boulder, Colorado, just over the hill, called "Triana" (named after a neighborhood in Madrid). The food is marvelous, well-prepared, and well worth the price. The problem with food in the U.S., at least as it is served up in so-called "restaurants," 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html