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methods of preparation of foods |
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I then discuss the preparation of various foods. (187) For no dish is fat ever added to the rice or vegetables. Pork fat is eaten and appreciated but it is treated like meat and not separated from it to be used for anything else. (See Notebook 14 p. 143 following). Most house have the carving of an animal head on their main post which I always thought was the crude representation of a mithan skull, but now I discovered that this carving is called 'mei-shang' or 'mei-wong', that is stag's head. The same name is given to the strongly conventionalized carving on doors and even to the reliefs on the doors of the rice granaries which are reminiscent of buffalo horns. If the skull of a deer or stag is brought home it is first hung up on the carved head at the main post. |
