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Skriven 2014-12-03 18:29:12 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: Wok (and Woll)
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-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 RH> I've got all of his Shogun series, all but one (Tai Pan) in paperback.
 RH> I never did see the mini series.

 DD> Speaking chronologically Shogun was the first of the series - even
 DD> though the semi-autobiographical King Rat was the first published. Tai
 DD> Pan was the second in the time line followed by Gai Jin, then King

 RH> IIRC, Gai Jin takes place in the 1800s, Tai Pan in the late 1950s/early
 RH> 60s.

The scope of Tai Pan covers the trading houses (especially the British and
American) from (the end of the first Opium War) before the founding of Hong
Kong as a British Crown Colony as a spoil of war in 1842 to the death of Dirk
Struan. Gai Jin, I believe, runs somewhat after the death of the original "Tai
Pan of the Noble House". I'll have to look that up online to check myself - as
the books are packed away in the back of the small bedroom.

LATER: Gai Jin's timeline (it's the last Clavell book to be published - just a
year before he snuffed it) begins in 1862 ... ten years after Commodore Perry
forced the opening of trade with the Western nations.
 
 DD> Rat, Noble House and finally Whirlwind (set in Iran before 1980) ...
 DD> all with cross pollination of characters.
  
Noble House was published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963.

 RH> I'm going to re-read all of them in order, to get everything straight.
 RH> First time thru I read them as I got them, very haphazard order to it
 RH> but I did read Shogun first.

I read Tai-Pan first - then moved on to King Rat - as I had seen the movie and
learned that it was a Clavell yarn - which turns out to be
semi-autobiographical.

 DD> There were two mini-series from these books and a number of movies.

 RH> Of which I've not seen any.

I saw them both - when presented originally. Now I'd likely give them a miss
and have little or no interest in re-watching them. There was a movie made of
Tai Pan in 1986, loosely based on the novel. It was filmed under communist
Chinese censorship, some portions of Clavell's story were considered too
offensive to be filmed as written and considerable changes were made. I gave it
a clean miss - especially as they didn't use Steve McQueen to play Dirk Struan
as was original plan.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Lightning McQueen's Balsamic Motor Oil Chicken
 Categories: Poultry, Herbs, Citrus
      Yield: 8 servings

      8    Chicken legs; skinned
    1/3 c  Orange marmalade *
      1 tb Olive oil
    1/3 c  Orange juice
      1 tb Orange zest
      2    Sprigs fresh rosemary
    1/4 ts (ea) salt & pepper
      1 c  Balsamic vinegar

  * may substitute no-sugar-added orange marmalade

  Preheat oven 350oF/175oC

  Heat sautO pan over medium high heat and add olive oil.
  Season chicken legs with salt and pepper and brown on each
  side for 3-5 minutes. Remove chicken and set aside.
 
  In the same sautO pan, add balsamic vinegar, orange
  marmalade, sprigs of rosemary, zest and juice of the
  orange. Cook for approximately 5 minutes over medium heat
  to reduce the sauce. Make sure you stir it.
 
  Place chicken back in pan and coat with sauce. If your
  sautO pan has a heat resistant handle go ahead and put in
  your preheated 350oF/175oC oven. If not, place coated
  chicken on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for
  25-30 minutes.

  Take out of the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Enjoy!

  From: http://family.disney.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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