I remember carmine, as a coloring agent. It has very interesting origins, coming from an insect. I think they crushed up a small beetle or some hapless bug to extract that lovely red color...I think it even was an ingredient in cosmetics...! Sharon Lee Butcher Reference Librarian AEDC Technical Library 100 Kindel Drive, Ste C212 Arnold AFB, TN 37389-3212 931-454-4430 Fax: 931-454-5421 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Lutefisk vs Haggis Friday's here way early this week, isn't it? To up the ante on the web site below (which I have bookmarked, because sometime, sooner or later, a student is going to ask for something that I can answer with it) I would like to submit two of our more interesting cookbooks: _The Roadkill Cookbook_, and _The International Roadkill Cookbook_ (we also have several books under interesting subject headings such as "Cookery Insects", "Edible Insects," etc.) Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer Special Collections Librarian/Archivist Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive Hyde Park, NY 12538 (845) 451-1757 [log in to unmask] >>> "O'Brien, Jeff (Clerks)" <[log in to unmask]> 12/10/01 02:14PM >>> And, last but not least - after doing an extensive internet search using the term "weird food" we come up with this occasionally off-colour entry from "Danceyworld Industries" http://www.bluecrow.com/members/dancey/pages/weird1.htm Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Berry [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:34 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Lutefisk vs Haggis RE: Lutefisk vs HaggisAssuming the lutefisk doesn't scale the ropes to escape the ring . . . Best wishes (with more damage to the appetite from horrible puns than from thoughts of haggis and lutefisk) Thomas Berry, Archivist Historical Construction Equipment Association 16623 Liberty Hi Road Bowling Green, Ohio 43402 Phone 419-352-5616 Fax 419-352-6086 [log in to unmask] http://www.hcea.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Moser, Dennis To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:02 AM Subject: Re: Lutefisk vs Haggis Obviously the haggis would win, since it has the "stomach" for the fight! (Aiiiieeee! Stop him before he does it again!) Jeff "if a lutefisk and a haggis went 15 rounds, which one would win?" O'Brien Dennis "I've been through Corsicana and I didn't bring home a fruitcake" Moser Dennis Moser, MILS Project Director, IMLS National Leadership Grant Digital Imaging Faculty Lee College P.O. Box 818, Baytown, TX 77522-0818 (281)425-6819/(281)425-6557 (fax) [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List! To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List! To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List! To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List! To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>