Re: [CH] Peter's email
Linda Hutchinson (lipant@sympatico.ca)
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:09:18 -0500
There are some great cookbooks about street food in Asia. I have 3. The
best is James Mayson's Street Food.
Reading it makes me wish I could go there. You would like that book, Bill.
Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: "KnoxBill" <knoxbill@comcast.net>
To: "Perry C. Abernethy" <pcabernethy@comcast.net>
Cc: <jim@wildpepper.com>; "Doug Irvine" <dougandmarie@shaw.ca>; "ChileHeads"
<chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] Peter's email
> Perry C. Abernethy wrote:
>
>> Boy, I can sure tell there are no Vietnam veterans or Green Berets in
>> this bunch. Thats all we had to eat with our rations was Tabasco sauce!
>> Man, it tasted great. They started putting it in C rations (remember
>> those) and in the LRRP rations. When your in the middle of Cambodia, 5 of
>> you, and no one to call to call for help, what do you slrrp down- Tabasco
>> sauce and a handful of wild peppers-those long thin kind.
>
> viet vet here, perry...saigon and phubai...never had the pleasure of
> c-rats, but did find plenty of heat in the street food and little
> restaurants...after i convinced them that i wanted it HOT...but i've heard
> many stories of tabasco making the rations almost palatable...sent a case
> of jim campbell's hab sauce to some marines in iraq, to help with the
> rations there...they said it was HOT, but it was good... <grin>
>