Mark Thorson wrote:

>
> Yesterday, she was saying that because the salad
> she was making was made with raw vegetables which
> are still alive and have their life force, you
> shouldn't mix the salad dressing into the salad
> with your hands. You should use chopsticks.
> If the vegetables had been cooked, you could go
> ahead and use your hands. She wasn't clear on
> whether the life force from your hands would
> ruin the salad, or whether there was some ill
> effect you'd receive from the salad through your
> hands.
>


There's a cuckoo born every minute.

Actually I opened your post because I thought it was about cooking duck.

;-)

gloria p

On 2/1/2010 5:16 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> I have the TV on most of the day, even though I'm not
> watching most of the time. I'm usually working, and
> just have the TV as sort of background music. And
> of course, I like cooking shows. If Lidia Bastianich
> had a 24 hour channel, that's what would be on my set
> most of the time.
>
> Sometimes I get desperate. Sometimes I'll tune in the
> Spanish-language cooking shows from V-me. Or an
> infomercial for the Magic Bullet. (I'd rather have
> an infomercial with Ron Popeil in it -- where are
> you, Ron?)
>
> Rarely, I'll tune in to Cooking Time, the Korean
> language cooking show. The host often uses obscure
> or weird ingrediants, like oligosaccharide or
> slim eel fish paste. But what really gets me is
> the food quackery. She'll say this is food is good
> for the joints, or that food is good for the muscles,
> or this other stuff is good for your brain.
>
> Yesterday, she was saying that because the salad
> she was making was made with raw vegetables which
> are still alive and have their life force, you
> shouldn't mix the salad dressing into the salad
> with your hands. You should use chopsticks.
> If the vegetables had been cooked, you could go
> ahead and use your hands. She wasn't clear on
> whether the life force from your hands would
> ruin the salad, or whether there was some ill
> effect you'd receive from the salad through your
> hands.
>
> You learn something about other cultures by
> watching their TV. Koreans are a bit kooky.

I figured this out the first time I presented myself to my wife's Korean
step-mom back in the early 70's. I remember her sticking her head
through the half-opened door and telling me that her daughter wasn't for
me and I should go away. I remember thinking to myself "this is nuts."
Come to think of it the whole family was a little kooky - and they're
mostly white folks. The Koreans aren't the only holders of that
particular stock. That's OK, my wife is worth all the nuttiness I've had
to endure all these years and my guess is that the feeling is mutual.
:-)