On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:41:40 GMT, "A1 WBarfieldsr"
wrote:

"Wayne Lundberg" wrote

A most important part of Mexican, Mexican cooking, is managing the order
in
which dinners are prepared then delivered over time. Since refrigeration
is
a very new aspect of the kitchen - and in someplaces still absent -
Mexican
chefs have developed a logical sequence of events.

What time frame are you living in or referring to. Bring these people in
out of the jungle and introduce them to electricity, and at least tell
them we have had refrigeration since the late 1920s and early 1930s.
snip

There are many areas of the world where electricity is absent or, even
in large cities, sporadic even today. 99.99% of human history passed
before the 1930s and people still cooked and ate a variety of foods,
'though not frozen m'wave dinners. I'm not sure how I'd take to
'fermented' beans (although fermented soy beans are common in Asian
cuisine), but I think Wayne's information was quite interesting. As a
recent power outage showed, one *can* live without m'wave or freezer,
and quite nicely, too.