Lili Krakowski on wed 15 aug 07
Marcia! Overjoyed to see you back!! Hope the food was good, the wine superb,
the company amusing, the trip fun.
While you were gone I got an education. At long last, I know. I learned
that meme is NOT egocentricity run amuck, but a philophical concept about
cultural bits and pieces that are transmitted by a culture the way genes
transmit whatever. In other words! CHICKEN SOUP! I also learned that
qualia is the plural of quale which since 1675 has been in common parlance
(yeah, sure)
for the quality of a thing as it is in our minds, as it appears to us. In
other words MOTHER's CHICKEN SOUP!
Someday I might do a cookbook about chicken only...Because chicken are
ubiquitous, and chicken soup, in diverse forms, an international language
(No disrespect meant, Edouard!)
Lin Yutang in one of his novels wrote about a mother in China whose son had
been away a long long time. She hears her son is coming home...so she
orders a chicken to be killed and boiled. Well he does not come that day,
so she has the same stock used and another chicken cooked..and so for a long
time, the stock getting richer each day. (I do not remember if the man ever
comes home...) Anyway I learned from that to freeze and reuse chicken
broth, to which, like Marcia I add onion, also carrots, but not clove. I do
use some soy sauce.
I do NOT cook the coriander in! But a spoon of finely chopped fresh
coriander adds a perfume....
Now I hope I got this right: The meme of chicken soup is passed on parent to
child, in each culture . "La poule en soit" as we would say in
Existentialist times, the family recipe. But in each and every seething
brain the qualia of chicken soup dance like drunken matzo balls! "This is
chicken soup as it is meant to be!" "How dare you! This is not right! My
mother added a dash of sherry!" "Ah the chicken soup of Yore [great
grandmother's cook]! and like that.
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
Marcia Selsor on wed 15 aug 07
WOW! Lili! That IS an education. Far beyond me I am afraid.
Marcia
On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Lili Krakowski wrote:
> Marcia! Overjoyed to see you back!! Hope the food was good, the
> wine superb,
> the company amusing, the trip fun.
>
> While you were gone I got an education. At long last, I know. I
> learned
> that meme is NOT egocentricity run amuck, but a philophical concept
> about
> cultural bits and pieces that are transmitted by a culture the way
> genes
> transmit whatever. In other words! CHICKEN SOUP! I also learned that
> qualia is the plural of quale which since 1675 has been in common
> parlance
> (yeah, sure)
> for the quality of a thing as it is in our minds, as it appears to
> us. In
> other words MOTHER's CHICKEN SOUP!
>
> Someday I might do a cookbook about chicken only...Because chicken are
> ubiquitous, and chicken soup, in diverse forms, an international
> language
> (No disrespect meant, Edouard!)
>
> Lin Yutang in one of his novels wrote about a mother in China whose
> son had
> been away a long long time. She hears her son is coming home...so she
> orders a chicken to be killed and boiled. Well he does not come
> that day,
> so she has the same stock used and another chicken cooked..and so
> for a long
> time, the stock getting richer each day. (I do not remember if the
> man ever
> comes home...) Anyway I learned from that to freeze and reuse chicken
> broth, to which, like Marcia I add onion, also carrots, but not
> clove. I do
> use some soy sauce.
>
> I do NOT cook the coriander in! But a spoon of finely chopped fresh
> coriander adds a perfume....
>
> Now I hope I got this right: The meme of chicken soup is passed on
> parent to
> child, in each culture . "La poule en soit" as we would say in
> Existentialist times, the family recipe. But in each and every
> seething
> brain the qualia of chicken soup dance like drunken matzo balls!
> "This is
> chicken soup as it is meant to be!" "How dare you! This is not
> right! My
> mother added a dash of sherry!" "Ah the chicken soup of Yore [great
> grandmother's cook]! and like that.
>
>
>
>
> Lili Krakowski
> Be of good courage
Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com
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