Gee, my roots must be older! I come from the "whole stuffed chicken first
simmered for soup" then browned in the oven for the main course school or
variant. George Lang, in his famous cookbook claims this is a very ancient
Hungarian technique harking back to the ancient Chinese. Nothing like being a
soup nationalist! ;-)
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At 08:51 AM 7/12/97 -0700, Sandy Gostel Perkins wrote:
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>I didn't join to add fuel to a fire. I joined to help keep the soup
>simmering on the stove. We may not all agree upon the recipe, but I would
>hope we would all defend the right for chicken soup (in whatever form it
>happens to be in) to exist.
>
>(I just saw Joe's note - seems he agrees with this too, thanks)
I'm a very agreeable guy, Sandy. It's just that I get a lot of bad press
on this list, especially from Eva Balogh, who, it seems, is happiest when
she's surrounded by political monsters of her own creation. I guess that's
one way to spend one's time.
Joe Szalai
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Dear Colleagues,
I believe that Mr. Apple's article does deserve our comments. Please do NOT
COPY my letter, but do consider writing your own.
Best regards: Bela Liptak
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The New York Times
New York City
To the editor,
R.W. Apple Jr. believes(7/13/97), that hope for NATO membership "prompted
Romanians to paper over their conflict with Hungary over Transylvania." This
sentence is not completely accurate:
First, it implies that Romania had some claim on Hungary, which she agreed to
give up. This is not the case. While Transylvania was part of the kingdom of
Hungary for a thousand years and while in the 20th century, it has changed
hands three times, today it is part of Romania and the agreement has left it
so.
Secondly, I object to the term "paper over," because it implies only a
superficial treatment of a problem. This is not necessarily the case: If the
agreement does results in the return of the tousands of confiscated Hungarian
churches and schools, if it does provide cultural autonomy to Europe's
largest ethnic minority, the co-inhabitating Hungarian national community of
Romania, if these hopes do materialize, then this agreement will do much more
than "paper over," it will become the prototype blueprint for solving the
ethnic problems in the 21st century.
Bela Liptak
July 13, 1997
Stamford CT.
Tel: 203-357-7614
The writer is an adjunct professor at Yale University
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