They eat:
chicken soup with dumplings;
grilled lamb and emu with garlic and chilies on steamed semolina;
round risen wheat loaves, dipped in spicy and ground chickpea sauces;
mesquite bean flour, maize-meal and beans with caramelized onions and herbs;
sweet peeled prickly-pear fruit;
small honey-sweetened cakes with dates and pinon nuts -
- and drink:
herb tea;
cooled water;
sweet fruit liqueur.
SM Stirling, The Desert And The Blade (New York, 2016), Chapter Thirty-One, pp. 787-788.
Stirling always gives us food for thought.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteYet again, a very nice, very tempting banquet Stirling offers us! And, these people being Jews, what I noticed is that no dairy products, such as cheeses, were included in the meal. Goes back to the prohibition in the Book of Numbers, I think, to eating a kid cooked or boiled in its mother's milk.
And, of course, nothing made from pigs!
Sean
Ostriches are tref; but emus aren't -- not having been around at the time of Leviticus...
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Stirling,
ReplyDeleteI had not known that emus were kosher! For a Christian, of course, this does not matter. All foods are kosher, is what has to be concluded from what Christ said in Mark 7.17-23 ("thus he declared all foods clean," verse 19).
Sean