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Skriven 2015-10-24 07:03:00 av Dave Drum (90486.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 32299 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Happy Thanksgiving
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-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 DD> Columbus Day

 JW> I see more and more places in the US are recognizing what an
 JW> appalling human being he was and honouring Indigenous Peoples' Day
 JW> instead.

 DD> Save me from the politically correct mavens with a cause

 JW> Hardly PC nonsense. Columbus was guilty of slavery, torture,
 JW> mutilation, infantcide, murder and genocide; he ranks right up there
 JW> with Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Do a little reading, starting with
 JW> the acocounts of Baertolome de las Casas, a Dominican friar who was
 JW> there at the time.

You left out Idi Amin. I prefer Christopher Kelley's take on ol' Cristobal ....

"According to the second, more recent myth, Columbus was a demon of unknown
origins and indeterminate age who was consumed by a rapacious lust for gold and
love of slavery. He deliberately launched a genocidal war against Native
Americans. He was a religious fanatic who falsely claimed to have discovered
the New World more than 10,000 years after the migration of Asian people across
the Bering Strait.

Yet this myth does not really hold up either.

Overwhelming evidence suggests that Columbus was the son of Domenico Colombo
and his wife Susanna Fontanarossa, who were both from the Republic of Genoa in
what is today Italy. His father worked as a weaver in the wool trade.

Columbus's diary is filled with references to God and gold. He was Catholic,
and he sought a tangible return on behalf of his speculative investors.
Columbus was comfortable with religion and the institution of slavery, but no
more so than the majority of his contemporaries.

In 1493, when Columbus returned on his second voyage to the island of
Hispaniola where he had left a small garrison, he found that it had been wiped
out by the native Taino people. This skirmish marked the beginning of a long
and violent history between European and native peoples in the Americas. Over
the next thirty years, 90 percent of the Taino population would be tragically
killed. They were primarily victims of disease, not a deliberate policy of
extermination. It is absurd to lay the blame for all the subsequent
depredations by European settlers on the shoulders of Columbus.

When we strip away these two Columbus myths and try to approach the historic
Columbus in the context of his times, we are left with a more complex and more
fascinating figure, who was neither an angel nor a demon. At the end of the
day, Columbus was one of a handful of global historic individuals who changed
our world for good, for ill, and forever.

To biologists, he is known as the father of the Columbian Exchange. Both Old
and New Worlds were transformed by Columbus's voyages. As a result of the
Columbian Exchange, Europeans received tomatoes, potatoes, cocoa, tobacco and
boatloads of silver from the New World. Before Columbus, spaghetti Bolognese
did not exist, and pizza lacked tomato sauce. His voyages led to the eventual
introduction of chocolate to the rest of the world.

Those living in what became known as the Americas received horses, pigs, the
lowly earthworm and Christian missionaries. Lacking immunities, they also
received new diseases, such as the smallpox that eventually ravaged the
indigenous population of two continents.

Not all exchanges are fair.

It is the historic Columbus that we should remember and even celebrate on
Columbus Day."

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      Title: Ugandan Chicken
 Categories: Poultry, Vegetables, Nuts, Curry
      Yield: 6 servings

      4 lb Chicken pieces
    1/4 c  Oil
      1 ts Salt
      1 ts Curry powder
      1 lg onion; peeled, sliced
      1 lg Red bell pepper; in strips
      1 lg Tomato
  1 1/2 c  Uncooked rice
    1/4 c  Chunky peanut butter
    1/4 c  Warm water

  Brown chicken in vegetable oil in large frying pan. Set
  aside. Remove all but 2 tablespoons of oil and drippings
  in pan. Stir in curry powder and salt. stir in onion, red
  pepper, and tomato. Cover and simmer 5 minutes. Return
  chicken to pan. Cover. Simmer until chicken is tender.

  Remove chicken to large platter. Blend peanut butter and
  water. Stir in vegetables. Heat to boiling. Spoon over
  chicken.

  Recipe from: http://www.recipelink.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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