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On Jan 27, 8:01 pm, "The Galloping Gourmand" >
wrote:

> The whole idea of alt.food.mexican-cooking is to talk about how to
> cook Mexican food at home, even though the purpose of the group has
> never been officially defined.


Well, when Linda Gonzalez started this group in early 1998, she wanted
it to be an easy going discussion of Mexican food, no matter where it
came from, home or not, Mexico or not. At least, that was the way I
read it.

There were several friendly people who had a good time here, and a
few, maybe 3-4, jerks who came along who decided their ideas about
Mexican food were better than those of anyone else who was here, and
who were mean about it. Too bad, because they drove away some nice
people. One of those jerks eventually even kill-filed Linda because
she had the audicity to ask him to stop insulting people.

Linda opened a cantina in southern California in 1999, and some of us
thought that her bar could be a metaphor for this newsgroup, that we
would all enjoy sitting around a table at her place, drinking cerveza,
eating pickled pigs feet and other snacks, and talking in a friendly
way about our favorite type of food. We could play pool, too.

So, GG, when we talk around here about our antojitos, we come about it
honestly and historically. And we've lost Linda, I'm sorry to say.

That's the way it is, to borrow a phrase.

David