The Oldest Cookbook in Korean
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The Oldest Cookbook in Korean
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#2It still blows my mind how recent in history humans have been able to pass information into the future or across great distances. It’s amazing we know anything.
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#3It still blows my mind how recent in history humans have been able to pass information into the future or across great distances. It’s amazing we know anything.
And why oral history was such an important part of so many ancient cultures.
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#4even more amazing when you realize this was just the first one in the newer Korean script, and they had much older ones in the traditional Chinese script that was widely used by Koreans until recently.
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#5It's interesting to see what Old World cuisine looked like before the spread of New World ingredients.
Editing in a quote from the article for repliers: 'Notably, there’s no mention of gochugaru, the staple spice of Korean cuisine. Although gochugaru, made from New World chile peppers, became available during Lady Jang’s lifetime, “the book is really about the royal cuisine of her ancestors, when gochugaru was not available,” notes Lady Jo.'
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#6It's interesting to see what Old World cuisine looked like before the spread of New World ingredients. Editing in a quote from the article for repliers: 'Notably, there’s no mention of gochugaru, the staple spice of Korean cuisine. Although gochugaru, made from New World chile peppers, became available during Lady Jang’s lifetime, “the book is really about the royal cuisine of her ancestors, when gochugaru was not av…
This cookbook is from around 1670, almost 200 years after the discovery of the New World.
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#7It still blows my mind how recent in history humans have been able to pass information into the future or across great distances. It’s amazing we know anything.
And why oral history was such an important part of so many ancient cultures.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately (mostly in terms of my own memory) and a fun random thing I've been thinking of is that it's really impossible (at least to me) to visualize something with any meaningful fidelity. I can describe a scene, but that's just my description, it's so blurry.
When I hear a song I like, I can pretty much repeat it note for note when I whistle, and it conveys really the same feeling and meaning, but it's also a bit blurry on account of the details getting fuzzier like lyrics, specific instruments etc... but it feels a lot more authentic to the original memory/experience than anything I can ever visualize.
What I'm saying, is that I wonder if there's something special about how spoken/vocal memory sticks vs other kinds of memory.
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#8It still blows my mind how recent in history humans have been able to pass information into the future or across great distances. It’s amazing we know anything.
And why oral history was such an important part of so many ancient cultures.
And now we have discussion boards like this one which will be a goldmine for future historians.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
And why oral history was such an important part of so many ancient cultures.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately (mostly in terms of my own memory) and a fun random thing I've been thinking of is that it's really impossible (at least to me) to visualize something with any meaningful fidelity. I can describe a scene, but that's just my description, it's so blurry. When I hear a song I like, I can pretty much repeat it note for note when I whistle, and it conveys really the same feeling…
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
And why oral history was such an important part of so many ancient cultures.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately (mostly in terms of my own memory) and a fun random thing I've been thinking of is that it's really impossible (at least to me) to visualize something with any meaningful fidelity. I can describe a scene, but that's just my description, it's so blurry. When I hear a song I like, I can pretty much repeat it note for note when I whistle, and it conveys really the same feeling…
I noticed that there is something there about vocal compared to visual. Some years ago while messing around memorizing/reciting pi, I always thought I imagined the numbers visually and recited from there. I'm bilingual and a friend asked if I can do it in my mother tongue. It was weird, I was surprised I was struggling. I definitely recite(in my head) in English, then I visualize the numbers than I translate.
It was surprising because when I was even younger I thought I had a photographic memory, I noticed it got weak over time and with memorizing some of pi I thought I was bringing it back. And here I find it was mainly vocal. With the points brought up here for oral tradition, it makes sense that vocal memory has stayed strong.