Re: The glory of liverwurst

[Guest guest]

OK, now I LOVE liverwurst (though have not made it

successfully). But why does he think MEN made it?

AFAIK in most European countries it is the women who

end up slicing and dicing and cooking ... the guys tend

to raise the animals and do the butchering. The Indians

even brought the squaws on the hunt, so after they

killed the buffalo the squaws could cut up the carcass

and make the jerky. I've never seen anything that indicates

making sausage was the provence of the male-folk.

-- Heidi

>Such men had a

>flair for making dead animal parts appetizing and giving them long shelf

>lives. (Some Italian dried sausages keep for many months at room

>temperature; and prosciutto, the dried Italian ham, is aged at room

>temperature, near the sea with windows open, for two years. As usual,

>Italians remain the most accomplished dead European males with regard to

>food, the glory of liverwurst notwithstanding.)

[Guest guest]

<< OK, now I LOVE liverwurst (though have not made it

successfully). But why does he think MEN made it?>>

Heidi,

It probably stems from the same school of thought that calls men 'chefs' and

women 'cooks' :-)

Dedy

[Guest guest]

May be mistaken but wouldn't the shops selling the sausages be run and owned

by men supporting their family, preparing their recipe right there including

cutting and grinding the meat. Speaking of, in Fast Runner questioning why

there was bad smelling seal when the villian was eating the rabbit all by

himself? How would it go bad with all that ice? Could have been comments to

try to get rabbit shared.

Wanita

> OK, now I LOVE liverwurst (though have not made it

> successfully). But why does he think MEN made it?

> AFAIK in most European countries it is the women who

> end up slicing and dicing and cooking ... the guys tend

> to raise the animals and do the butchering. The Indians

> even brought the squaws on the hunt, so after they

> killed the buffalo the squaws could cut up the carcass

> and make the jerky. I've never seen anything that indicates

> making sausage was the provence of the male-folk.

>

> -- Heidi

>

>

> >Such men had a

> >flair for making dead animal parts appetizing and giving them long shelf

> >lives. (Some Italian dried sausages keep for many months at room

> >temperature; and prosciutto, the dried Italian ham, is aged at room

> >temperature, near the sea with windows open, for two years. As usual,

> >Italians remain the most accomplished dead European males with regard to

> >food, the glory of liverwurst notwithstanding.)

[Guest guest]

>May be mistaken but wouldn't the shops selling the sausages be run and owned

>by men supporting their family, preparing their recipe right there including

>cutting and grinding the meat.

For butcher shops, that would be true ... though in Germany anyway, such shops

are often run by the entire family (I have relatives there that ran a bakery,

it was great -- live upstairs, work downstairs, everyone worked in the shop).

Many sausages were homemade though.

> Speaking of, in Fast Runner questioning why

>there was bad smelling seal when the villian was eating the rabbit all by

>himself? How would it go bad with all that ice? Could have been comments to

>try to get rabbit shared.

Good point. Though the igloo looked pretty warm ... if they kept the seal in

there it

might go bad. It seemed warm enough for them to go without shirts, anyway.

That is a point though, maybe they were just hinting broadly that

the guy should share.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:30:11 -0800

Heidi Schuppenhauer <heidis@...> wrote:

>

>OK, now I LOVE liverwurst (though have not made it

>successfully). But why does he think MEN made it?

>AFAIK in most European countries it is the women who

>end up slicing and dicing and cooking ... the guys tend

>to raise the animals and do the butchering. The Indians

>even brought the squaws on the hunt, so after they

>killed the buffalo the squaws could cut up the carcass

>and make the jerky. I've never seen anything that indicates

>making sausage was the provence of the male-folk.

>

>-- Heidi

>

>

Hmmm...well you might try dropping him an email and see what he says.

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