From:: erich@ai.mit.edu (Erich Prem)
Subject: 999 yr old food
To: gsl
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 15:02:50 EDT

GSL, Friday, 8th floor playroom, 12pm

Hosted by the Zoo.


For many centuries, Vienna, capital of a mighty Empire and situated
at the crossroads of Central Europe, drew its cultural incentive
from a variety of nations; and Viennese epicures considered delicacies
to be no less important culturally as conventional works of art.

They tasted the preferred dishes of herdsmen from Hungarian plains
and the Transylvanian and Carpathian mountains, the food of Alpine
lumbermen, the fare of Czech peasants and Serb mountaineers, the 
culinary extravaganzas of Polish nobles and Turkish Pashas, the
dainties of Italian seamen and Levantine traders. The Viennese
were choosy: they kept the best, and put their pride into
improving it even further. There were at least as many national 
cookeries in the realm as there were languages spoken by its 
people.

As of today, Austria is 999 years old. And if you want to find
out what remained from the uprise and fall of the House of
Habsburg, you shall find out tomorrow.

It will be Gulyas.