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Rudi's Epicurean Glossary
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Rudi's comment:
Things aren't always what they seem to be:
The Jerusalem artichoke is not an artichoke, nor does it come from Jerusalem: it's from America and is part
of the sunflower family.
Sauerkraut is not German, it's Chinese. It was eaten in China at least 200 years before Christ.
French fries are not French, the're Belgian.
Swiss steak isn't Swiss, Russian dressing isn't Russian, English muffins are not English,
and chop suey is not Chinese; they are all American.
Onions, garlic asparagus are lilies; the seet potato is a morning glory; and peanuts are beans, not nuts.
Vive la difference (William Safire, NY Times):
After eating,
an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction;
a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine;
a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine;
a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate;
a glutton embraces the white porcelain altar, or, more plainly, he barfs.
Glossary:
A collection of definitions for terms and phrases that refer to food and everything gourmet.
The whole glossary was installed under this "epicurean" theme. You will find culinary words in different languages,
next to English, such as some French, Spanish and of course German and Rudi's native Austrian/German.
The main task is of course gastronomic, but we also relate to some general expressions.
We hope you will have us much fun in looking at this glossary, as we had in putting it together.
A very important part is also our wine glossary, about wines and wine regions
of the most important countries in the world.
We also want to point out that we used help in many other glossaries, and especially WIKEPEDIA.
Epicurean:
means to us:
devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of good food and comfort.
Epicurus (341-270 BC)
Founder of the Epicurean School of philosophy which rivaled Stoicism for 5 - 600 years.
Epicurus taught a materialist doctrine, in which the Gods inhabited only a space "between worlds"
and did not interfere in the affairs of this world, which were governed by mechanical law or by chance.
His logic set out three general principles for the establishment of the truth of a proposition.
Sensation is infallible he said, for it proved the reality of outside things;
preconceptions are required to cognize through sensation and thus reason.
Pleasure and pain constitute the third principle.