On Mar 19, 12:00 pm, "The Galloping Gourmand"
> wrote:

> Cook books are great, I learned more from a few cookbooks in one week
> than I learned from
> this group in a year.

You've been here a year?

>Then when I posted recipes I translated from a
> Spanish language newspaper,
> I was accused of plagiarism. It seems that the newspapers get their
> recipes from the same
> cookbooks and from the internet.

All anyone asked was that you post your sources. I'm sorry that it's a
problem for you to do that simple thing.

> But this group's interest seems to be tacos and how excited they get
> when a
> new taco wagon arrives in the parking lot, or whether enchiladas
> should be rolled, folded or flat, or
> the endless debate about whether there should be beans or cumen [sic] in
> chile.

Or chili. And on this group we celebrate what we want to celebrate.
Who is to decide otherwise? The arrival of the taco truck is a sign
of spring for someone who lives in the frozen north. I'm sorry you
don't recognize that.

> Sonoran style cooking is the poverty cooking of Mexico. It's what Tex-
> Mex and Taco Bell are all
> about. No point in buying a book about Sonora style cooking, it's in
> every taco wago [sic] and taco truck.

Some of my best memories of Mexico come from when I lived in Arizona
in the early '60s and spent a lot of time doing biological field work
in Sonora. Nice people, tasty food, both inland and on the coast. I
was very comfortable there, and I'm sorry you don't have similar
memories.

Also, I'm curious why you stick around in a newsgroup in which, to me,
you seem frustrated with the way others of us post.

David