"Frogleg" wrote in message
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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.

I to remember when I used a slide rule instead of a calculator, and a
computer was the size of a room. Progress has speeded up quicker and
quicker every year since the 1930s. Research is now being conducted on
Bio-Computers to be implanted directly into your brain and electric motors
the size of a molecule. That is happening right NOW, not in the future.
Don't you think it should and would be expected that the majority of the
people had refrigerators in a modern civilized country like Mexico.
I didn't say there weren't tribes in backward countries existing without
electricity. I was referring to Mexico and It' millions of modern day type
of living, you know Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, McDonalds and many more not
mentioned. I think you will find most Mexican people have refrigeration and
modern stoves. I would certainly think the chefs of Mexico does. What he is
describing, is what I would expect around the turn of the last century,
where most got around on donkeys or by horse. Where people didn't think
anything about brushing the blow flies away and buying meat from a butcher
doing business in an open air market. I think there has been some progress
since those days, or I hope so, with meat and vegetable exportation to
other countries.
I think it was an interesting post about how Mexican people lived in the
past, but not for modern day Mexico,
--
William Barfieldsr