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Skriven 2006-08-08 12:55:09 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 4168 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: Home againis the Sai
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Hi Dale,


 RH> As I'll have the Asian influence from 5 1/2 years in Hawaii, 10 1/2
 RH> from the Southwest (8 AZ, 2 1/2 TX), 6 in Germany and 8 (so far) in the
 RH> Southeast.  Six months in California also had a bit of an impact on my
 RH> taste buds and how I do some things now.

 DS>   What did all of that traveling do to your accents?  My sister grew
 DS> up   mostly in Florida.   She then moved to Queens, NY -- then middle
 DS> of
 DS>   Ohio.  Once when we visited with her about then, she had a really

Good grief!  You must have needed an interpreter. (G)

 DS>   strange accent. Now she has been back in Florida for decades and her
 DS>   accent has gone back to southern neutral.

Surprisingly, a bit of the North Carolina drawl is what people pick up
on most of the time. We've been gone from there for a bit over 23 years
but I just can't fully gt rid of it--and now it will be intensified by
moving to GA. (G)



 DS>   As you have said, military life does expand your eating habits.  Our
 DS>   first introduction to Tex-Mex in any form was from another Army
 DS> couple   in Ayer while I was going to class there.   England
 DS> introduced us to
 DS>   Indian cooking.  Chinese, Thai and Cajun were added to the mix by
 DS>   reading cookbooks and attending classes.


I learned a bit of California/Mexican cooking  when we were in
Moneterey, then picked up more of the Tex/Mex when we moved to Mexico.
Arizona added a bit of a twist to it too.  Living in Germany for 6 years
I picked up some of that way of cooking; it was probably closest to what
I'd had before leaving home.  I've learned to appreciate the various
Asian and Pacific Rim foods out here, even learning how to cook some of
them.  Wherever we've gone in the last 20 years (getting to Germany),
I've tried to pick up at least one local cook book that has some of our
favorite foods form that area included.  Never did get one from the 6
months we spent in New England but I've got a couple of small "Yankee"
magazine best of cook books.  I've also acquired cook books on Indian
and other cultures over the years, after sampling tastes in various
locations.


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Ruth
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